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It’s official: Medicare released a proposal July 15 to cover acupuncture as a remedy for chronic low back pain.
 
What do modifiers 25, 57 and 59 have in common? Yes, they do all contain the number five. But they also could trigger a prepayment review by Anthem BlueCross BlueShield plans as early as Sept. 1.
 
 
The groundbreaking E/M code changes that are on track to arrive by 2021 gained clarity after the AMA released a preview of the E/M documentation guidelines you’ll use to code office visits in 2021.
 
 
The CDC has posted the FY2020 ICD-CM final code changes, and the good news is there were no changes to the proposed list of 273 new, 30 revised and 21 invalidated codes that were released in the proposed inpatient hospital prospective payment system rule, April 23. 
 

Benjamin David Danneman, 37, of Eureka, Mo., was employed by at least three local health care organizations that should be conferring with lawyers now. On June 12, Danneman was sentenced to 57 months in prison for working for them as a nurse and, in one case, as an assistant director of nursing without a nursing license.

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