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Watch out for coding updates to a dozen national coverage determinations (NCDs), including big-ticket items such as mammography, to ensure your claims continue to get paid as ICD-10 turns one in October.
A report live from this year's AAPC HealthCon shows some payers are accepting X modifiers in place of modifier 59 and more.

National Government Services (NGS) has fixed a problem with advance care planning codes (ACP) 99497 and 99498, so providers in their jurisdiction should see their wrongly denied claims resolved.

Did your practice participate in the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals’ settlement pilot project? If so, we’d love to hear the story of how your practice fared — regardless of whether it agreed to a settlement and got out of the massive backlog of appeals at the administrative law judge level.
 
Please contact editor Josh Poltilove at jpoltilove@decisionhealth.com or (301) 287-2593.
 

A Medicare contractor is expanding the range of place of service (POS) codes they'll accept on advance care planning codes -- and will reverse denials made on those grounds.

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