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02/16/2015
Many practices are excited to begin using the new X modifiers in place of modifier 59 (Distinct procedural service), but you may want to hold off a little longer, at least for your Medicare patients.
 
02/16/2015

Take simple precautions to make sure your patients don’t get sicker when a patient presenting special infection risks comes in for treatment.

 
02/16/2015

Don’t let confusion surrounding Medicare’s abbreviated rules for providing home services — and the hefty price tag of approximately $40.5 million in denied claims — stop you from delivering needed services to high-risk patients.

02/16/2015

Though regulations for what constitutes a patient who needs a physician home visit can be vague, providers can look to these rules for home health homebound status for guidance.

02/16/2015

http://pbn.decisionhealth.com/Articles/Detail.aspx?id=519314Use easy lay-ups such as annual wellness visits (AWVs) and clinical documentation improvement as a springboard to meet for pay-for-performance models that HHS says are coming soon.

02/16/2015

Home service codes 99341-99350 see an average denial rate of approximately 11%, with denied dollar amounts north of $40 million annually, according to an analysis of 2013 Medicare data, the latest available.

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