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Can You Ace This 2022 Year-in-Review Coding Quiz?
How many of these major 2022 changes do you recall? Do you remember the important coding changes that have occurred over the past 12 months? If your memory is a bit hazy, here are questions about three of the most significant. See if you can answer them all correctly to gauge if you are ready to hit the ground running in 2023. Question 1: The 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) outlined changes to the policies for billing split/shared visits, effective Jan. 1, 2022. What were those policy revisions? Question 2: On Oct. 1, 2022, ICD-10-CM expanded the Z55-Z65 (Persons with potential health hazards related to socioeconomic and psychosocial circumstances) code group. What were the revisions to Z59.8-? Question 3: On Jan. 1, 2023, CPT® will delete one code and revise four codes for reporting office/outpatient consultation services. What are the codes, and what will the updated codes allow you to do? Think you know the answers? Click here to know the Answers.
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