Weigh the pros and cons as the healthcare industry prepares to implement new leveling guidelines. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the last two years, you should now be fully aware that big changes to the way you will determine evaluation an...

Certain telemedicine services are already covered under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) when provided to Medicare patients in accordance with regulations. In response to the public health emergency (PHE) for the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Med...

Your frequently asked questions, answered. In a previous post in the AAPC Knowledge Center, we noted that, on March 17, 2020, Medicare relaxed its telehealth regulations to facilitate healthcare for the elderly and others affected by the COVID-19 pand...

On Dec. 31, 2019, as many of us here in the U.S. were celebrating New Year’s Eve, a pandemic quietly began in the Chinese province of Hubei. First identified in Wuhan, the provincial capital, coronavirus (more accurately known as COVID-19 or 2019-nCo...

At some point during the late 1980s or early 1990s — I forget the exact year — someone bought a small, beige, plastic box into the office I was working in and placed it on my desk. I immediately began using it to write articles and other documents tha...