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It Pays to Participate in AAPC’s Annual Salary Survey

September 1, 2022 | No Comments

Legitimize your worth to employers and enter to win a prize. AAPC’s Medical Coding and Billing Salary Report has become the go-to resource to learn about compensation and salary tr...

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Help Is Available For Hurricane Victims

September 30, 2022 | No Comments

The government is taking care of business and AAPC membership is taking care of their own. The federal government has declared public health emergencies (PHEs) in Puerto Rico in res...

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Tags: disaster, emergency, Fiona, Ian
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Medicare Expands Cochlear Implantation Coverage

September 29, 2022 | No Comments

Broader coverage comes as great news for those with profound hearing loss. Cochlear implants were first covered for adult Medicare beneficiaries in October 1986 with coverage for c...

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Tags: CMS, cochlear, cochlear implant, cochlear implantation, Medicare
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Make Your Voice Heard

September 22, 2022 | No Comments

CMS seeks your input to help improve efficiency and equity within its programs. Despite decades of research and efforts to improve health outcomes in the United States, disparities ...

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Tags: CMS, RFI
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CPT 2023 Further Refines E/M Coding

September 14, 2022 | No Comments

Changes to evaluation and management codes are going to take time getting used to. CPT 2023 brings medical coders 101 new codes sprinkled throughout the code set, but it’s the revis...

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CMS Maps Out End of PHE

September 8, 2022 | No Comments

Now is the time to prepare for a return to pre-pandemic standards and practices. After two-plus years of working under the flexibilities granted to the healthcare industry during t...

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Tags: PHE, public health emergency

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admin aapc

September 1, 2022

Legitimize your worth to employers and enter to win a prize. AAPC’s Medical Coding and Billing Salary Report has become the go-to resource to learn about compensation and salary trends in the healthcar...

Michelle Dick

September 9, 2022

Patients will see expanded accessibility to devices and services, but providers will feel a payment pinch. Two recent rulings impact audiologists and patients who rely on hearing aids for quality of ...