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A late push, an extended deadline, and Obamacare has 6,000,000 signups for 2016, the President announced on Friday.

Watch for coding-policy changes wrapped up in CMS' edits to the 2016 National Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) policy manual. The edits, effective Jan. 1., include lesion-removal and debridement codes.
A North Carolina medical billing manager appears to have been caught up in a Medicaid fraud ring and faces 10 years in prison.
Share with Part B News what you think is in store for physician practices in 2016 about new revenue opportunities, quality reporting, the continuation of ICD-10 and more, and get a free report.
Physicians will have another way to report removing ear wax in 2016 now that surgical code 69209 (Removal impacted cerumen irrigation/lavage, unilateral) joins higher level 69210 (Removal impacted cerumen requiring instrumentation, unilateral) in the auditory system section.

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