In the 2019 OPPS/ASC final rule, it appears CMS published a comment from someone who states they are aware of the planned creation of CPT codes for radiofrequency ablation of genicular nerves and SI ... [ Read More ]
APCs for outpatient hospital fee schedule for nerve injections/procedures 207,206,203,204 in 2015 have been deleted for 2015 and replaced with 5431-5432, 5441-5443
[url]https://www.cms.gov/Medicare... [ Read More ]
The removal of the old hardware is included in the replacement of the hardware.
AAPC had a great session on neurosurgical coding - [url]http://static.aapc.com/a3c7c3fe-6fa1-4d67-8534-a3c9c8315fa0/e0b... [ Read More ]
There is an [URL="http://static.aapc.com/a3c7c3fe-6fa1-4d67-8534-a3c9c8315fa0/e0bdf19e-6a7c-4179-9300-8acc467f224e/14b41494-5432-4b85-bd42-460a42a054f1.pdf"]article in PDF [/URL]format on the AAPC sit... [ Read More ]
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Also look into the Complete Global Serv... [ Read More ]
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AAPC member Gabriel Aponte MSHIA RN CPC COC CIC CRC CPMA CDEO CDEI CCC CHONC RHIA CCS CCSP CDIP CCDS CCDSO has been working in healthcare for 17 years. Aponte has auditing and coding experience in sev... [ Read More ]
Medicare expands coverage creates new codes and revises others. In December 2020 the Centers for Medicare 38 Medicaid Services CMS updated its Opioid Treatment Programs OTPs Medicare Billing and Payme... [ Read More ]
Over my almost 30year surgical coding career the documentation for assistant surgeons consisted of only the name of the assistant surgeon in the operative note header. Most often there was no mention ... [ Read More ]
Follow this stepbystep guide to coding and documentation compliance. Its always better for a facility to find compliance issues before a government agency or payer does who may respond by levying pena... [ Read More ]
