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Here’s how to make your way through the CPT® molecular pathology code set. “The genetic testing code set is really unlike anything else in CPT®,” explained Larry Simon, MD, MBA, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Member CPT® Editorial [...]

Here’s how to make your way through the CPT® molecular pathology code set. “The genetic testing code set is really unlike anything else in CPT®,” explained Larry Simon, MD, MBA, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, Member CPT® Editorial [...]

OASIS vendors need to mark an important Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services session on their calendars. “CMS will host an OASIS technical informational call for Software Vendors and Developers on Thursday, August 25, 2022” from 1 p.m. to 2 [...]

One ophthalmologist in our sampling would lose $39,000 a year under the new proposal. Although eye care practices have the option of reporting either ophthalmological services codes or E/M codes for their patient encounters, many ophthalmologists and optometrists bill the [...]

Question: I have encounter notes in front of me that indicate the provider treated a patient with, according to the encounter form, "rheumo lung disease w/knee RA." Could you decipher this phrase for me, and how many diagnosis codes would [...]

Question: I have encounter notes in front of me that indicate the provider treated a patient with, according to the encounter form, "rheumo lung disease w/knee RA." Could you decipher this phrase for me, and how many diagnosis codes would [...]

Question: I have encounter notes in front of me that indicate the provider treated a patient with, according to the encounter form, "rheumo lung disease w/knee RA." Could you decipher this phrase for me, and how many diagnosis codes would [...]

Expect bundles with most new 2016 codes. With 57,161 new edit pairs — roughly 40 percent of which involve services your general surgeon might perform — you need to stay on top of Correct Coding Initiative (CCI) version 22.0 changes [...]

Make the distinction between modifier indicators of ‘1’ and ‘0.’ If you scour through the latest coding edits affecting psychiatry coding in 2016, you will notice that these edits cover the new prolonged clinical staff service codes and advance care [...]

Make the distinction between modifier indicators of ‘1’ and ‘0.’ If you are looking at the latest coding edits for 2016, you will notice that these edits cover certain integumentary codes, the new prolonged clinical staff service codes, advance care [...]