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In the current issue of Part B News we talk about a new report from CAQH that calculates the average cost per month for directory maintenance at close to $1,000, and how practices can reduce that. Ron Ungwase, a senior product manager with CAQH, talked to us about the interoperability issues that have helped make things so difficult, and how the problem might be resolved in the future.

A downstate New York ophthalmologist stands accused of misrepresenting simple eyelid procedures as much more complicated surgeries and billing millions more than he should have for them.

Richard Scott, our man on the ground at the AMA's annual CPT and RBRVS Symposium in Chicago, gets the latest code news on stab phlebotomy, chornic and principal care, BP self-monitoring, and the new E/M standards. 
CHICAGO, Nov. 20 - After several sessions covering the historic E/M code changes moving closer to reality, some audience members here at the CPT and RBRVS 2020 Annual Symposium had pointed questions for CMS officials about the billions of dollars potentially on the move under the physician fee schedule in 2021. 

Some early adopters of chronic care management (CCM) received overpayments because inadequate oversight allowed overlapping care management services.

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