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The AMA on June 25 issued three new CPT clinical lab codes – a new Category I microbiology code and two new proprietary “U” codes – to test patients for COVID-19.
 
 
How do your salary and workplace stack up? Have you seen changes to staffing or salary due to the COVID-19 public health emergency? Tell us and enter for a chance to win a $25 Visa card!
 
Andrea Smith, practice manager for Constance M Chen, M.D., PC, a boutique plastic and reconstructive surgery office in New York City, tells Part B News how they're handling month four of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Would you report 24 office visits for the same patient on the same day? What about a solid 24 hours of psychotherapy? You’ll be able to starting July 1, according to the medically unlikely edit (MUE) change file that CMS posted today.
Medicare issued an update to its COVID-19 fact sheet May 27, and it contains more answers your telehealth documentation and coding questions.The topics relevant to Part B billing range from modifier use to how to report a telehealth encounter if the practitioner or the patient experience technical difficulties.

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