Get to know how these new CMS proposed rules might affect your practice. Fee schedule changes to most evaluation and management (E/M) services have been relatively safe from CMS intervention over the past few years. As for 2019, however, it’s [...]
Hint: Proposal causes one pulmonary practice in our sample to lose $93,000 in one year. Pulmonology practices have been able to rest easy during the past few years’ worth of fee schedule changes, but this year may have thrown a [...]
Unsure of how to report Brown’s sheath syndrome? Check these options. Most eye care practices report continuing success using ICD-10 codes, but some others have said that their offices are falling back on old ICD-9 conventions and failing to code [...]
Shell out $3285 as cost for providing MOON, and more. If you have been anxious about the roll out of the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON), you may breathe a sigh of relief, at least till October. In a turn [...]
Your providers will need to document laterality beginning in October. With warm weather approaching, your otolaryngologist could begin seeing more patients because of swimmer’s ear, otherwise known as otitis externa. You previously reported the diagnosis with 380.12 (Acute swimmer’s ear). [...]
Your providers will need to document laterality beginning in October. With warm weather approaching, your otolaryngologist could begin seeing more patients because of swimmer’s ear, otherwise known as otitis externa. You currently report the diagnosis with 380.12 (Acute swimmer’s ear). [...]
Here what your physician’s documentation needs to specify. Infective otitis externa is an infection of the outer ear canal, the passage from the outside of the ear to the eardrum. Infection causes swelling, redness, heat, and pain, and is often [...]
Latest edits also caution you about reporting injections with fluoro. You can now sometimes report trigger point injections administered during the same treatment session as an epidural, but still be cautious when reporting injections with fluoroscopic guidance. Get the lowdown [...]
And watch these chemodenervation bundles. If you're reporting duodenal intubations with upper GI endoscopies, you will need to apply the brakes, thanks to the latest version of the Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) edits -- Version 18.2 that came into effect July [...]
Latest edits specify more injection procedures include guidance. The latest Correct Coding Initiative edits (version 18.2) add more pairs to the list of injections you can't report in conjunction with fluoroscopic guidance. Good news lies with deleted edits, however, where [...]
