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In a sprawling Part B fee schedule released today, CMS proposed a 4% decrease to the Medicare conversion factor, revised policies for numerous E/M services, physician assistant billing freedoms and a loosening of telehealth coverage policies.
 
The FY2022 ICD-10-CM guidelines were released Monday, July 12, and include instructions for how to assign new code U09.9 (Post COVID-19 condition).
Practices will have a new ICD-10-CM code to report for post COVID-19 cases (sometimes known as long-haul COVID) starting Oct. 1.
 
If you are having trouble understanding how the AMA’s extensive technical corrections relate to the rest of the 2021 E/M office visit guidelines, here’s a tool that will help.
 
Providers who administer the COVID-19 vaccine to patients in their homes will receive an 87% pay bump for the visits, effective June 8.

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