Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Do you avoid reporting visits with a patient's family? This advice will help you apply the right regs. It's time again to determine whether you're a Medicare coding ace or if you still need some assistance with your skills. Almost every Part B practice codes an E/M chart from time to time, but ample questions exist about how to properly report these services. Today we're putting you to the test with a few reader-submitted questions that will help you understand Medicare's complicated E/M billing and coding rules. After you review these three Medicare Part B test questions, take a look at the next page to see how you fared. Do Different Specialties Count? Question 1: I work for a large hospital with multiple groups of physicians of different specialties. Lately we have started seeing rejections for new patient visits from Medicare when the patient is indeed a new patient for [...]