Part B News
08/25/2014

Practices should pay attention to CMS’ new modifiers for distinct procedural services (XE, XS, XP, XU) to avoid potential denials — especially neurologists and family practitioners.

 
08/25/2014
Physicians now have until Sept. 8 to register, review and dispute the financial payments linked to them on the Open Payments website.
08/18/2014

Getting reimbursed by private payers for chronic care management services is difficult now, but CPT code changes could make it more likely in 2015.

 
08/18/2014

Physicians looking to broaden their patient bases and increase their revenue may have a new way to do that: treating American service veterans when the Veterans Administration (VA) can’t.

 
08/18/2014

Specific rules governing the use of four modifiers for assistant-at-surgery services, coupled with confusion over the medical necessity of the assistant, often drive high denial rates for the claims billed by the assistant.

 
08/18/2014

Your electronic health records (EHRs) can make your practice more efficient if you fix common deficiencies that decrease workflow.

 
08/18/2014

You’ll need to get prior authorization before a patient is able to receive a power mobility device (PMD) starting on Oct. 1 if you are in 12 states found to have high spending and improper payments for the equipment.

 
08/18/2014

Open Payments back online, $190 million doctor-pervert settlement, new PBN mobile edition, and more.

08/18/2014

The codes billed most often with assistant-at-surgery modifiers have higher denial rates than when the codes are billed without them.

 
08/11/2014

Medical practices should prepare for major changes to orthopedic, gastroenterology and cardiology procedures as well as drug-testing codes, according to Part B News’ review of the CPT 2015 dataset and Appendix B for 2015 released Aug. 5.

 

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