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Some staff members say we can charge an E/M visit prior to a screening colonoscopy if the physician needs to address a co-morbidity and adjust Coumadin, manage diabetes, etc. There seems to be a lot of different opinions. What does CMS state?

10/01/2010

There are now three different groups that have government approval to certify electronic health record (EHR) systems for meaningful use. InfoGard Laboratories, an information technology firm that specializes in electronic security testing, got the green light from the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Sept. 17.

10/01/2010

This chart examines the change in denial rates for 10 high-utilization services between 2008 and 2009, based on the latest CMS claims data from 2009. NOTE: Codes billed fewer than 1 million times annually were excluded from analysis. NOTE: To ensure a wide range of specialties were represented, several high-denial, high-utilization physical therapy codes were excluded, despite having higher denial rates than some of the codes shown.

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