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When coding under a risk-adjustment paradigm, capturing the full range of a patient’s chronic conditions takes on elevated importance. That’s because your payments, and ultimately your coding compliance, may be impacted.
Check your payer contracts and correspondence for signs that insurance companies are charging you to receive your medical reimbursement payments via electronic funds transfer (EFT).
Some practices that frequently report E/M services with modifer 25 (Significant, separately identifiable E/M service) are on track to face a dramatic pay reduction.
After weeks of secret meetings, Senate Republicans have released a ‘discussion draft’ of their proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and hope to rush the sweeping legislation to a Senate floor vote before the July 4 recess.
Practices that treat CIGNA patients: Check that pile of unopened mail. In the provider edition of CIGNA's Network News, April 2017, the payer notes that it mailed initial requests for medical records to collect data for the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) in Februrary.

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