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01/13/2014
Your practice will have room to include more diagnosis codes — quite a few more — on CMS’ recently revised CMS-1500 form, set to be the only one accepted by CMS after April 1. You also will no longer need to include certain demographic information that most payers likely already have readily accessible, experts tell Part B News.
 
01/13/2014
Many of the most-often denied codes billed with modifiers 59 or 76 in 2012 could have been salvaged if coders were checking their CPT manuals.
 
01/06/2014
A long-awaited switch to the ICD-10 code set, increased requirements to avoid Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) penalties and implementation of Affordable Care Act (ACA) provisions will tax practice resources in 2014.
01/06/2014
For the first three months of 2014, your Medicare physician conversion factor will increase 5.3%, CMS announced in an email Dec. 27. The conversion factor is $35.8228 starting Jan. 1, compared with $34.0230 in 2013. However, previously announced changes to relative value units (RVUs) will keep most of your fees flat, DecisionHealth analysis shows.
01/06/2014
If you plan to report a surgical or medical procedure on the same date as a transitional care management (TCM) code (99495-99496), check first to see whether the TCM codes are bundled or you may face denial of the 30-day service code.
 
01/06/2014
Now that our experts have shared their predictions for the biggest things they expect to see happen in health care in 2014, let’s go back and see how Part B News did with its predictions for 2013.
01/06/2014
Practices will take ICD-10 preparations more seriously in 2014 as the implementation date of Oct. 1 draws near, results from a Part B News predictions survey show.
01/03/2014
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) expands the electronic health records (EHR) donation safe harbor, CMS moves to fine or expel "recalcitrant providers" and more. 
01/01/2014

by John Commins

01/01/2014

by Scott Mace

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