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How much do you know about the 21 communications-based and remote services that Medicare covers? Answer three questions that are based on the presentation for the upcoming Remote Control: Bring New Remote E/M Services Online in Your Practice webinar, Jan. 28, 1-2 p.m., ET to find out.
  1. Fill in the blank: The 2020 CPT manual contains ____ new codes for physiologic monitoring services.
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Ongoing government intervention with vaping products has again made headlines during the first week of the new decade, while the CDC issued an emergency ICD-10-CM update to capture vaping-related diagnoses.
If you are one of the qualifying APM participants (QPs) who earned a lump sum incentive payment for your hard work for an advanced alternative payment model (APM) in 2017, congratulations!
 
Practices that treat substance use disorders (SUD) and perform urine drug testing take note: The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) added urine drug tests for SUD patients to the agency's Work Plan in its October 2019 update.
 
 
In the current issue of Part B News we talk about a new report from CAQH that calculates the average cost per month for directory maintenance at close to $1,000, and how practices can reduce that. Ron Ungwase, a senior product manager with CAQH, talked to us about the interoperability issues that have helped make things so difficult, and how the problem might be resolved in the future.

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