Pulmonology Coding Alert

Can you pass our year-in-review coding quiz?

This past year was full of changes, but how many of the big coding and reimbursement revisions do you remember? If you’re having trouble keeping all the changes straight, we’ve put together a handy quiz to refresh your memory for the new year.

Take a walk down memory lane with three significant coding changes over the previous 12 months. Correctly answer the questions to start 2022 off right.

Find Out if Telehealth Services Remain in the Physician Fee Schedule

Question 1: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid issued the Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule on November 2, 2021. In the document, CMS finalized the proposal of retaining services added to the Medicare telehealth services list for a certain amount of time. When is the timeframe scheduled to expire?

Remember to Specify a Patient’s Cough

Question 2: On October 1, 2021, ICD-10-CM converted several codes to parents, including R05.- (Cough), to help increase specificity. How many expanded codes did ICD-10-CM create under parent code R05.- to help you specify a patient’s condition?

See if You Recall Who Provides Principal Care Management

Question 3: CPT^® brings a new family of principal care management (PCM) codes to life effective January 1, 2022. Who can provide for these services, which patients are eligible for these codes, and will CMS adopt the usage of the new codes?

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