If you don’t have any trouble using the ICD-9 neoplasm table, you shouldn’t have a hard time transitioning to ICD-10 neoplasm codes.
Medicare beneficiaries will be thrilled that Medicare will cover annual well checks. The Center for Medicare introduces a new benefit of wellness visits for beneficiaries annually, except during the year of their Welcome to Medicare exam. You’ll use ...
Beware: Don’t use the CMS consult crosswalk for billing purposes. You may be seeing light at the end of the tunnel. The AMA just published an article to clarify the use of the consultation codes for non-Medicare patients, and talks about their efforts to get CMS to delay their new policy. You can find the article [...] Related articles:
Check with Medicaid plans, insurer warns. You can breathe a sigh of relief — one major payer will stick with 99241-99255. UnitedHealthcare (UHC) commercial plans will make no change in payment for consultation codes (99241-99255) at this time, according to a UHC e-mail alert. “Physicians may continue to submit claims for these services, and will be reimbursed according to United-Healthcare payment policies”. Beware: One Medicaid [...] Related articles:
We’ve got the links you need to keep up with these bottom-line changers from HHS, CMS. While most of us were celebrating the last few days the Old Year and preparing to welcome the New Year, the federal regulators had one last, little rulemaking frenzy for 2009. The result is a 555-page proposed rule implementing the [...] Related articles:
We’ve got the link to a nifty ICD-9 to ICD-10 code translator. Maybe I’m getting old, but I just can’t believe we’re about to ring in the second decade of the 21st century. It seems like just yesterday I was toasting the new millennium and breathing a sigh of relief that “Y2K” wasn’t the big catastrophe [...] Related articles:
Do you have a question about how you should code in 2010? Write us and we’ll ask the experts. Princesses have their castles, but the big news in Orlando this weekend is that the Coding Queens are coming to town! This week in Orlando, nationally known coding & billing experts like Marvel Hammer, Melanie Witt, Leslie Johnson [...] Related articles:
Split Postoperative Cataract Care Question: An ophthalmic surgeon performs cataract surgery, and then turns the patient over to the optometrist for postoperative management only. How should I code between the two providers? Do I need a modifier? Washington Subscriber Answer: If the ophthalmic surgeon turns the patient over to the optometrist for all 90 days of postoperative care, the optometrist will report 66984 [...] Related articles:
Hey, Coding News readers! It’s your turn to weigh in on the consult controversy. Question: What should you do for Medicare 2010 coding if an inpatient consult on a patient’s initial hospital day does not support 99221? Answer: Kenneth Simon, MD, MBA, FACS, CMS, senior medical officer at the CPT symposium was very adamant that you [...] Related articles:
Tumor excision codes get specific. Will surgical oncology practices take a reimbursement hit? We’re starting to learn what new CPT codes we’ll be using come January 1, 2010. Coding News will keep you posted over the coming weeks, along with analysis from coding experts around the country so that you know what to expect for your practice’s [...] Related articles: