Q: Are there any updates on the Evaluation and Management (E/M) code requirements? A: The American Medical Association (AMA) has now weighed in with their E/M requirement modifications, which means that…
“This is madness,” wrote U.S. District Judge Michael McShane in Portland, Oregon, in a scathing rebuke of the Trump administration’s new Title X regulations that includes a gag rule dictating…
A small family practice created a large improvement in diabetes control by focusing on workflow efficiency teamwork and technology, including the change of the diet and supplements which you can…
A newly issued federal regulation, if allowed to stand, would limit women’s access to care and force doctors to withhold information about all of their health care options. The AMA says…
Whether an individual physician is in a practice that uses telemedicine depends greatly on if that physician is a radiologist or a gastroenterologist. Specialty also significantly affects whether a physician…
Reflecting the reality that physicians and their staff spend an increasing amount of time engaging with technology to enhance and improve patient care, the 2019 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code…
Whether you are dealing with a commercial payer, Medicare, or Medicaid, there are certain types of improper claims that should be avoided if you want to reduce your risk of…
The American Medical Association (AMA) updated the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set in 2019 to include new codes for connected health services in an effort to encourage CMS to…
New codes are coming for the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set to bring more specificity to coding for an expanding range of telehealth services. The American Medical Association, which…
One of the more notable things about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' revisions to its ICD-10 policy on Monday is the fact that the suggestions come straight from…
The American Medical Association (AMA) has submitted codes that could finally lead to Medicare reimbursement for end-of-life and advanced care conversations, five years after a previous effort was squashed when…
The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand the time frame for registering and using the Open Payments system to…
A delay in requiring all providers of medical care to use a new health-records and billing system to describe treatments is giving small medical offices major headaches. Billing is a…
The nation's largest doctors' group said Monday it won't try to block Medicare's release of billing records for 880,000 physicians, although it continues to oppose the government's recent decision to…
Healthcare providers say Medicare is going to short-change them on patients who spend fewer than two nights in the hospital, and delaying implementation of a new payment policy until October…
From patient accounting systems to sticky notes and "cheat sheets" posted in exam rooms, ICD-9 codes permeate the health care environment, translating the information in medical records to numbers on…