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03/31/2025
The nearly 40,000 new National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits might seem overwhelming at first, but a divide-and-conquer strategy for the next update can make it more manageable.
03/31/2025
The recent revocation of a physician’s visa, and her expulsion from the United States, spotlights a potential concern for practices employing providers who are foreign nationals.
03/31/2025
You can continue to provide telehealth services to patients in all geographic locations until Sept. 30, 2025, thanks to another extension passed by Congress.
03/31/2025
With providers increasingly seeing patients for behavioral health conditions, it is vital to accurately chart and code the patient encounters. Use this guide to navigate CPT and ICD-10-CM coding for behavioral health care.
03/31/2025
After early years of fast growth followed by a significant slowdown during the COVID years, the rise of advance care planning (ACP) codes 99497 (first 30 mins) and 99498 (each additional 30 mins) has settled into a steady but healthy groove.
03/27/2025
Help your staff prepare for the April 1, 2025, National Correct Coding Initiative update with the new, revised and deleted procedure-to-procedure (PTP) edits with short descriptors. 
03/27/2025
Help your staff prepare for the April 1, 2025, National Correct Coding Initiative update with the new, revised and deleted medically unlikely edits (MUE) with short descriptors. 
03/24/2025
The most recent continuing resolution (CR) from Congress, signed by President Trump on March 15, re-ups a few Medicare regulatory fixes providers had been hoping for, including COVID-era telehealth flexibilities, through September 2025. But once again Congress failed to adjust Medicare physician fee schedule pay rates, leaving many providers scrambling to meet their own budgets.
03/24/2025
Code G2211, often known as the complex E/M visit, can add about $14 to your E/M office visits. But the service is generating confusion about when to report it and who can report it. Use this quick quiz to test your coding and billing teams’ knowledge.
03/24/2025
Reports of health providers accused or convicted of patient assault show that practices can’t insulate themselves completely from criminal actions of their clinical staff, but you can take steps to reduce the chances of such incidents, and to shore up your defense in their event.

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