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Part B News is hosting an emergency audio conference on the end of consultation billing for your Medicare patients starting Jan. 1. The audio conference is this Thursday (for more information click here). Your practice must stop billing consult codes on Medicare claims for services rendered on Jan. 1 and beyond. 

In the 2010 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, CMS says they'll develop a new, two-digit modifier to identify the admitting physician in a hospital. CMS has yet to deliver the modifier to you and your peers, but there's a fair amount of speculation that it will be AI.  

You must use a new G-code to report you've electronically prescribed drugs for a Medicare patient in 2010. You'll forfeit incentive bonuses -- amounting to roughly $1,500 per provider -- if you continue to report old codes for e-prescribing.

Before they shut down for Thanksgiving, the RAC for Region B expanded the scope of its first three targets and and added its first DME target. 

I can always tell when someone is a doctor - all I do is make sure they're wearing a white lab coat and a stethoscope. Senate Democrats, including Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) at right, surrounded themselves with white-coated, stethoscope-wearing persons when unveiling the merged Senate health reform bill Nov. 19. That bill has now advanced, as predicted.

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