Part B News Features
Question: When our doctors requests a consult from another doctor, how can we tell whether our physician can count the conversation toward “discussion of management or test interpretation with... More
Recent changes mandated by Congress and CMS that boost the status of physician assistants (PA) — or physician associates, as some groups prefer — is another sign that the providers formerl... More
You may have suspected as much, and now a survey of 1,391 physician offices located in 15 metropolitan areas offers evidence that wait times for patients to get physician appointment have gone up su... More
Question: When our doctors requests a consult from another doctor, how can we tell whether our physician can count the conversation toward “discussion of management or test interpretation with... More
Recent changes mandated by Congress and CMS that boost the status of physician assistants (PA) — or physician associates, as some groups prefer — is another sign that the providers formerl... More
You may have suspected as much, and now a survey of 1,391 physician offices located in 15 metropolitan areas offers evidence that wait times for patients to get physician appointment have gone up su... More
Tools
Help your staff prepare for the April 1, 2025, National Correct Coding Initiative update with the new, revised and deleted procedure-to-procedure (PTP) edits with short descriptors. 
Help your staff prepare for the April 1, 2025, National Correct Coding Initiative update with the new, revised and deleted medically unlikely edits (MUE) with short descriptors. 
Benchmark of the Week
You may have suspected as much, and now a survey of 1,391 physician offices located in 15 metropolitan areas offers evidence that wait times for patients to get physician appointment have gone up substantially in recent years, at least in many metropolitan areas.
Most high-utilization psychiatry codes revealed symptoms of the COVID-19 slump that hit other services. However, denials for many services increased after a dip in 2020. A review of Medicare Part B data for the years 2019 to 2023 identified several top primary psychiatry codes.

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