Practice Management

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: January 10, 2018The Coding and Reimbursement Committee has updated the coding information available on the AAPM website. New charts have been posted that include information concerning Medicare's 2018 [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: January 24, 2018CMS has released a revised article that addresses the appropriate reporting of bilateral procedures and the potential impact of its rules known as "medically unlikely edits" [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: February 7, 2018In October 2017 CMS launched a nationwide program to better target medical review, limit the number of medical records requested, and put an emphasis on education [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: March 7, 2018The AMA and a number of specialty societies, including AAPM, were successful in preventing Anthem from applying a reimbursement reduction when an Evaluation and Management (E/M) [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: March 21, 2018CMS will begin mailing new Medicare cards with the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) in April 2018. The MBI on the new card is effective immediately unless [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: April 4, 2018In the November 2017 Final Rule, CMS sought comments on potential updates to the Evaluation and Management (E/M) Documentation Guidelines. CMS indicated it was particularly interested [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: April 18, 2018CMS has recently released its updated MIPS Eligibility Lookup Tool. Enter your NPI number to determine if you need to participate in the MIPS program in [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: May 9, 2018Some Medicare beneficiaries are receiving new Medicare cards with new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs). The MBIs are 11 characters in length and will use randomly selected [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: June 6, 2018CDI (Clinical Documentation Improvement) has been described as the process of improving healthcare records to ensure improved patient outcomes, data quality, and accurate reimbursement. Hospitals began [...]

Source: Emily Hill, PA, AAPM Coding ConsultantDate: June 20, 2018Next week we will be contacting a random selection of members to participate in an important AMA/Specialty Society Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) survey of [...]