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6 new COVID-19 vaccine administration codes added. The American Medical Association (AMA) has released several new vaccine administration CPT® codes and revised existing booster codes. These immediate changes are in response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently updating its recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines. COVID-19 Coding Changes at a Glance The code additions […]
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The clock is ticking on 2021. Yes, we know that it’s not 2020 yet. But a year from now, the way you code evaluation and management (E/M) office visits is going to change completely. For starters, you will be selecting visit levels based only on time or medical decision making (MDM). There’s a lot to […]
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CPT® coding for breast magnetic resonance imaging (breast MRI) has changed completely for 2019. Although we cannot yet report on the final codes and guidelines, information about the changes has surfaced after the AMA announced its release of the new CPT® code set on September 5. To begin, existing breast MRI codes 77058 Magnetic resonance imaging, […]
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You don’t have to be a coder to realize what the financial impact of proposed changes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be, or to see that there will be winners and losers. Using 2016 data (since data from last year hasn’t yet been released), in the aggregate, winners would have received nearly a billion dollars, while losers would be impacted to the tune of $ 722 million in losses.
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The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) June Report to the Congress addresses (among other things) issues it sees with the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) — one of two paths in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Quality Payment Program, and a provision of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). “As […]
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