Healthicity Blog

The OIG added many new items to their work plan in June. We’ve highlighted a select number of them below.

Watch our webinar featuring key aspects of effective medical coding and auditing reporting systems. 

2024 brought a lot of changes to the medical coding and reimbursement world. In January, we highlighted some of the changes in our New Year, New Coding Changes webinar.

The first major revision to the Evaluation and Management (E&M) coding and documentation guidelines in over two decades has put the spotlight the importance of Medical Decision Making (MDM) as the essential element when choosing an E&M level that isn’t time-based.

Enforcement agencies often focus on “following the money.” In other words, big revenue usually is associated with compliance scrutiny – and some of the biggest revenue generators are facilities. This is partially why enforcement agencies, like the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Inspector...

We’ve all been there – watching our laundry pile grow and grow until it engulfs an entire chair (or corner of the room). Ada finds herself in that very predicament, ignoring the boring task of laundry when there’s so much fun to be had in the summer sun.

Healthicity received so many great Modifier 25 questions during our recent webinar! They all had slight variations in the details, but most of the questions asked fit into five categories. CJ Wolf, MD, organized his responses below by those five categories.

Internal auditing and monitoring is one of the seven elements the Office of Inspector General (OIG) has outlined as guidance for effective compliance programs within individual and small-group physician practices.