The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued its proposed rule for inpatient and long-term acute care hospital prospective payment system payments, which take into account many provisions from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a…
ASC Coding, Billing & Collections
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.ASCs are leaving money on the table if they are not billing for limited arthroscopic shoulder debridement when warranted, according to Cristina…
CPT copyright 2009 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Q: We are receiving regular denials when coding for the aqueous shunt procedure. What might be the cause of this?
CPT copyright 2008 American Medical Association. All rights reserved. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.Here are the 2010 Medicare payments for 12 spine procedure approved for the ASC setting.
Congressional Democrats are considering extending a temporary increase of Medicaid funding for states, the enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages, for another six months, according to a report by Politico.
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A new practice brief in the May issue of the Journal of American Health Information Management Association notes that the focus of most CDI programs is to improve the quality of clinical documentation regardless of its impact on revenue, while…
The American Health Information Management Association announced it has been granted accreditation for its Certified Coding Associate program through April 2015 from the National Commission for Certifying Agencies, the accreditation body of the Institute for Credentialing Excellence, according to an…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued two notices to Tampa, Fla.-based Quality Health Plan with intent to impose intermediate sanctions and a civil monetary penalty on QHP for failure to comply with a number of administrative and contract…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a list of new and invalid ICD-9 diagnosis and procedure codes, effective Oct. 1, according a report from the American Academy of Professional Coders.
Errors by hospital coders affect accurate nonpayment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for catheter-associated hospital acquired infections, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan.