Documentation should paint a picture of the patient’s condition. Medical necessity drives every patient encounter. In fact, the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing Program (CERT) states
EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is the first of a two-part series examining how health risk, severity, and complexity impact healthcare policy, payment, and quality assessment.
First, let me say that I understand. My nursing life was spent in busy emergency departments as a trauma nurse. I understand distracting injuries. I
The Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) became effective Jan. 1, 2017, making it imperative that rural providers and hospitals leverage some practical application
What is the performance period for the value modifier in 2017 and 2018?
Can you provide guidance on use of the new K code for CPAPs?
In the 2/13/17 question you said 77063 could be billed with G0202 because it was digital and not with 77067 because it was analog. Those descriptions are no longer part of the code. I have been told by multiple sources to use CPT 77063 for ALL screening mammograms except Medicare which is the G0202 until 2018. Is this not correct?
If several pharmacies, each with their own national provider identifier (NPI), are owned by the same covered organization health care provider (payee), may the X12 835 payment and remittance advice for these pharmacies be consolidated and sent to the covered organization health care provider (i.e., the “parent”)?
For the new lab payments, what codes will we use to identify the new and existing ADLTs?
Can we bill codes 93620 and 93656 (both relate to comprehensive electrophysiologic evaluation) together? Are there any other codes that may be billed with 93656, or is it all encompassing?
HCPro’s HIM Briefings published its first release of information (ROI) benchmarking survey of 2017 last month. The survey, conducted in December 2016, explored health information
A client called me this week after receiving the results of an audit by a private insurer. While I have done Medicare audits for clients
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