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CPT® 2024 Brings More E/M Changes

September 22, 2023 | No Comments

Code descriptor revisions are about time. After the extensive changes CPT® made to the evaluation and management (E/M) codes and guidelines over the last few years, you’ll be reliev...

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Focus on Clinical Documentation Improvement

September 20, 2023 | No Comments

DOCUCON provides answers and solutions for CDI specialists and those considering a CDI career. AAPC concluded its clinical documentation improvement (CDI) conference, DOCUCON, today...

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Lincare Holdings to Pay $29 Million for Medicare Overbilling

September 20, 2023 | No Comments

Florida-based company admits to improper billing for oxygen equipment. Lincare Holdings, Inc., a Florida-based, wholly owned subsidiary of German multinational chemical corporation ...

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Check Out These HCPCS Level II Code Changes in Effect Oct. 1

September 6, 2023 | No Comments

New codes may help providers get paid for emerging services and supplies. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the HCPCS Level II code set update for fo...

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Taking an AAPC Exam in 2024? A Change Is Coming.

September 6, 2023 | 6 Comments

AAPC members will soon have a new way to take their credentialling exams. AAPC Chief Product Officer Raemarie Jimenez, CPC, CDEO, CIC, CPB, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CANPC, CRHC, and Jaci ...

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Coding Supplies, Implants, and Devices

Jennifer Lavoie

September 1, 2023

Ensure optimal reimbursement for items that are not billed as durable medical equipment. Assigning the proper codes to supplies, implants, and devices can have a direct effect on coding compliance, cha...

Establishing Usual, Customary, and Reasonable (UCR) Values for Services

Jacqueline Nash Bloink

September 1, 2023

Medical coders, billers, and auditors have the expertise to weigh in. This article discusses forensic work with respect to healthcare usual, customary, and reasonable (UCR) fee ranges. This is a peer r...