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Wondering what the future holds for healthcare? Just scan through the CPT® Category III codes. The CPT® Editorial Panel recently released 20 new Category III codes for emerging technologies, procedures, services, and service standards. The codes go into effect July 1, but you won’t find them in your 2023 code book. In accordance with the […]
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CPT® 2021 code updates for quarters 2 and 3 have been released by the American Medical Association (AMA). The new, revised, and deleted codes will be updated in Codify by AAPC as the changes go into effect. Make sure your practice updates other coding resources such as the CPT® 2021 code book and electronic health […]
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0521F – Plan of care to address pain documented (COA) (ONC)
Lay Term
The provider documents a plan of care to manage pain in a patient with cancer who receives chemotherapy or radiotherapy during the measurement period.
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Beginning Jan. 1, 2018, clinicians may report on Medicare Part B claims submitted for items and services the applicable HCPCS Level II modifiers established for patient relationship categories. Although the use and selection of these modifiers are not be a condition of payment, yet, clinicians should prepare for the likelihood of them becoming applicable components […]
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting a field test before implementing the Cost performance category of the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) allows CMS to waive the Cost measure for two years, but reminiscent of the sustainable growth rate fiasco, […]
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The category 2 code 4025F has been marked as status code "I" in PFS so we will not be able to file the code for medicare, but how about reporting the code for commercial payers for measure #52. As per the 2017 PQRS update code 4025F has been deleted from the numerator option for the and added new G codes G9695, G9696, G9697, G9698, G9699. So my question here is do we need to report 4025F for commercial payers or can we use the new G codes for the commercial Payers for the measure #52.
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