CPT 2010 / Provider News

CPT 2010 Update: Non-Face-to-Face Prolonged Services

New Year’s hats & horns for looser guidelines that let you count work spread over days. Groaning thinking of all the time you’ll never capture for complex cases requiring extensive pre-visit time? CPT 2010 brings you hope. Extensive guideline revisions “liberalize prolonged non-face-to-face services codes,” reports Richard Tuck, MD, FAAP, pediatrician at PrimeCare of Southeastern Ohio in [...] Related articles:

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November 5, 2009
CMS / Hot Coding Topics / MAC

Medical Office Billing: 7 Ways to Escape Computer Claim Casualties

Pay attention to EOBs and keep talking to your MAC. You could be losing money to a computer glitch and not know it, experts say. If you don’t nip a computer glitch in the bud, you may be plagued with improper denials and other claim holdups. Here are seven things you can do to seek out and [...] Related articles:

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October 21, 2009