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Part B News editors surveyed readers and interviewed experts to come up with numerous predictions of what will affect physician practices in 2018. Here's a sneak peek at one of the predictions related to new codes coming down the pike in 2018 -- and what you may expect -- with the remainder of the predictions coming in the Jan. 1, 2018, issue.
 
Take note of additional guidance on a suite of new E/M codes making their debut in 2018 to describe cognitive assessment and behavioral health care, straight from this week’s AMA CPT Symposium in Chicago.
When CMS deputy director Marge Watchorn asked a roomful of coding veterans at this week’s AMA CPT Symposium in Chicago what they would change about the guidelines, she got an earful. Here's what they said.
You’ll find a total of 314 code changes throughout your 2018 CPT manual, including updates that range from revised observation visits in the E/M chapter to new photodynamic therapy services in the Medicine chapter and two new modifiers.

On the heels of two similar settlements, a Baltimore health system has settled a case for $122,928 in which it was accused of getting the doctors whose practice it had acquired to bill established patients as if they were new, inflating their charges.

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