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Get Paid for Noncovered COVID-19 Vaccine Fees

HHS program reimburses healthcare providers and facilities for testing, treatment, and vaccine administration fees associated with insured patients. On May 3, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), announced the new COVID-19 Coverage Assistance Fund (CAF) program that covers costs of administering COVID-19 vaccines […]

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Get Paid What You’re Worth

Can your employer require you to work overtime without additional pay? The following was posted on AAPC’s Facebook page by a member: I work as a coder for a great company, the pay is good, I like what I do. My only issue is that they want us to work overtime every day, I’m talking […]

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Your Chapter is Paid for Holding Meetings and Hosting Exams

AAPC pays $ 2 for each member-attendee at approved meetings and $ 10 for every examinee. No reimbursement is paid for seminars. This reimbursement is deposited into the chapter checking account on a quarterly basis.

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Get Paid for Virtual Check-Ins

Medicare’s new communication technology-based service policies have several conditions for coverage. A medical practice can now bill and collect payment for certain non-face-to-face services without the strict telehealth rules of the originating sites being outside of the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) or in a Health Professional Shortage Area (HSPA) located in a rural census tract. […]

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Get Multiple Flu Tests Paid

Using 87804 x 2 might result in denial. If you’re performing a test that detects the flu via immunoassay in the office, your provider might test for two strains of the virus. Impact: When you file these claims properly, you’ll be paid for two flu tests rather than one. Read on for a bit of knowledge […]

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$1.85 Million Paid to Settle Urology Modifier 25 Whistleblower Case

Separately asking routine evaluation and management (E/M) services provided on a similar day as another procedure is usually denied by Medicare. Care providers might typically individually bill E/M services if they meet certain criteria and append modifier 25 vital, on an individual basis specifiable analysis and management service by a similar MD or different qualified health care skilled on a similar day of the procedure or different service to the claim. Modifier twenty five shows payers, like Medicare, that a care supplier went higher than and on the far side the standard E/M of pre-operative and post-operative care related to the medical procedure; which it had been vital, on an individual basis specifiable service. If this modifier gets used, a supplier unbundles a service and receives further compensation ― overpayments of Medicare bucks. Per a whistleblower, this is what Skyline urology allegedly did between January. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2016.

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You’ll Need This to Get Balloon Dilation of the Eustachian Tube Paid

Clinical Consensus Statement: Balloon Dilation of the Eustachian Tube (BDET), published by the American Academy of Otolaryngology  ̶  Head and Neck Surgery, June 4, is important because BDET is newer technology and may be rejected for payment by third-party payers as “experimental” or “investigational.” The American Academy of Otolaryngology’s (AAO) statement will be integral to […]

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$1.85 Million Paid to Settle Urology Modifier 25 Whistleblower Case

Separately billing routine evaluation and management (E/M) services provided on the same day as another medical procedure is typically denied by Medicare. Healthcare providers can sometimes separately bill E/M services if they meet certain criteria and append modifier 25 Significant, separately identifiable evaluation and management service by the same physician or other qualified health care […]

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