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02/14/2014

Choose codes you use often to get the most benefit from CMS’ fast-approaching ICD-10 National Testing Week, but also plan to find testing alternatives to fill the substantial gaps that CMS’ testing will leave.

02/14/2014

Physician practices may soon find patients coming into the office with lab results already in hand — or even missing that follow-up appointment altogether — now that CMS requires laboratories to give patients direct access to lab results.

02/14/2014

Protect your physicians’ hospital admitting privileges by tightening up their documentation on admitted patients in the wake of CMS’ clarifications on its “two-midnight rule.”

02/14/2014
Only the treating physician or non-physician practitioner (NPP) can perform the history of present illness (HPI) portion of an office visit — which you’ve no doubt drummed it into your doctors’ heads — but be on guard that some electronic health record (EHR) vendors are attempting to stretch that policy.
02/14/2014

Check the rules for individual payers and plans to see how they’ve clarified their billing policies in the wake of the AMA’s change to the description for 69210 for impacted cerumen removal when both ears are treated.

02/14/2014

CMS is giving out more information when denying payment based on incarceration status after several providers were caught up in an incarcerated-patient snafu via CMS last summer.

02/14/2014

About 35% of practices say their vendors will make ICD-10 upgrades for practice management systems (PMS) and electronic health records (EHR) by April 1, but almost one in four providers have not heard dates yet from their vendors for those upgrades.

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