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DecisionHealth is recruiting speakers to present at the 2022 Advanced Specialty Coding, Compliance and Reimbursement Symposium, to be held December 5-7, 2022, at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas.
 
The uniform policies for epidural steroid injections for pain management that went into effect late last year illustrate that LCDs are works in progress that change without warning. Five Medicare administrative contractors have revised the uniform LCD that they recently released and more changes could be on the horizon.
 
Private payers are issuing policies for modifier FT (Unrelated evaluation and management (E/M) visit during a postoperative period, or on the same day as a procedure or another E/M visit. [Report when an E/M visit is furnished within the global period but is unrelated, or when one or more additional E/M visits furnished on the same day are unrelated]).
 
Can you guess how they're interpreting the modifier?
 
 
The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 13 to remove a lower court stay on CMS' vaccination mandate, requiring millions of health care workers in facilities receiving federal funds to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
 
 
Starting April 1, you’ll have new ICD-10-CM Z codes to report if you find the patient you are treating is partially vaccinated or unvaccinated for COVID-19.
 

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