Healthicity Blog

AAPC’s 2023 HEALTHCON at the Gaylord Opryland Resort in Nashville, Tennessee brought together coders, billers, auditors, compliance professionals, vendors, and many others.

We just got done reading all 1,353 pages of CMS’s 2021 Proposed Rule. And wow, was that a doozie.

In February 2019, the OIG has made multiple additions to its Workplan.  There are some significant additions, so let’s look at a few of them.

Medicare pays physicians based on diagnostic and procedure codes derived from medical documentation.

On July 12, 2018, CMS published its annual update of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule.

Disciplinary action gives everyone an uneasy feeling. It’s one of those things that nobody likes to talk about.

For fun, let’s take a short quiz. Would you say that the following scenarios would be coded as a new or established patient?

You’ve probably noticed that physicians may experience some confusion regarding the terms “medical necessity” and “medical decision making,” when coding E/M services.