The American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced three new CPT codes for administration of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in children 6 months to under 5 years old, JustCoding reported. The new product and…
Medical billing is a process where you pay your provider for their services. When we say you, we mean that this is the process where your insurance carrier and you…
These codes are time-based CPT codes, used to report care management activities during a calendar month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 6 in 10 Americans…
Mark Synovec, MD, chairs the CPT Editorial Panel, which is responsible for maintaining what is sometimes called “the language of medicine,” the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set. The Editorial Panel, he…
Changes to the MPFS, OPPS, and HHPPS were announced on the same day. Rather than a “news dump” late on a Friday afternoon, federal healthcare officials instead served up a…
Innovative work to meet the urgent public health need for streamlined reporting and tracking of COVID-19 vaccinations is presented in today’s release of the 2022 Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code…
Your practice is considering making a move—or has moved—to a collaborative care model so patients have greater access to mental health care in the primary care setting. It’s a model…
Protect the integrity of your practice’s medical records with this sage advice. Evaluation and management (E/M) services are likely the most regulated and most often audited services in medical practices.…
Many nursing home COVID-19 patients would have benefited from daily, reimbursed-for physician visits in their skilled nursing facilities, but they were not entitled to them. With an epic crisis still…
New Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes have been created that streamline the novel coronavirus testing currently available on the United States market. New codes for immunizations CPT codes have been…
The American Medical Association (AMA) today announced that the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®)code set is being updated by the CPT Editorial Panel to include vaccine and administration codes that are…
New Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes have been created that streamline the novel coronavirus testing currently available on the United States market. Among these is a new code to describe…
The American Medical Association (AMA) today published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes two code additions for reporting medical services sparked by the public…
The first major overhaul in more than 25 years to the codes and guidelines for office and other outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services was included in today’s release of…
As unpleasant as the task may seem, a medical record audit of your physician practice is akin to the best kind of medicine. AMA Digital Health Study, 2019 Explore insights…
Each year on Oct. 1, the new ICD-10 codes become effective. Over the past few years, this has resulted in a few major changes and a few changes that seemed…