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General Surgery Coding Alert

Prolonged Services:

Grab This Opportunity for Non-Face-to-Face Pay

Published on Thu Feb 16, 2017

See a boost for complex or chronic cases. Do your general surgeons sometimes do extensive work evaluating a patient case “behind the scenes” without a mechanism to capture fees for those services?  Good news: As of Jan. 1, you now have a way to account for that work and collect appropriate reimbursement. CMS paved the way in transmittal # R3678CP, [...]
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