Physicians Have Breathing Room on ICD-10
It's official. The compliance date for the ICD-10-CM code set for outpatient diagnosis coding is Oct. 1, 2014
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September 22, 2012
HHS Deems Health Insurance Rate Hikes Unreasonable
Insurers in nine states, that is Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming have asked for rate increases as high as 24 percent.
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June 1, 2012
Append Modifier Q6 for Fill-In Physician
Before using modifier Q6 for a non-Medicare patient, check with the commercial payer — here’s why.
Question: We hired a locum tenens for two weeks. Do we code the same for the replacement physician as for a full-time...
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May 2, 2010
Ob-gyn Coding: Order, Not Implant, Decides Diagnostic vs. Screening Mammogram
Examine Medicare’s coverage guidelines.
Question: My ob-gyn sees a patient who has breast implants or breast augmentation and orders a mammogram. Should I count the mammography as a screening or a diagnostic test?
Louisiana Subscriber
Answer: Implants and augmentation...
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April 7, 2010
Get a Glimpse at ICD-10 Codes for Cough, Back Pain, and More
Wrap your brain around using letters in your diagnosis codes.
If you aren’t curious about how the ICD-9 codes crosswalk to ICD-10, maybe you should be.
“The transition date for ICD-10 codes is Oct 1, 2013,” stressed CMS’s Stewart Streimer...
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March 23, 2010
Use This Sample Appeal Letter As Ammo in Your Fight Against Modifier 25 Denials
Attach your procedure notes and the OIG’s report to pack extra punch.
Even if you follow all of CMS’s rules in reporting modifier 25 (Significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician on the same day of the…
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March 12, 2010
News from the Feds: Last-Minute MPFS Change & Proposed HITECH Rule
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:
- Proposed 2010 MPFS: $26 More for ‘Welcome to Medicare’ ExamCMS welcomed health care providers to an July 9 open...
- Proposed 2010 Physician Fee Schedule: A Closer Look21.5 percent cut looms for your services Last week, Coding...
- ARRA Sharpens HIPAA’s TeethSurprise! The stimulus package gave us new HIPAA requirements that...
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January 5, 2010