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Matthew Hennessey’s experience with the world of Kafka-esque medical billing underscores the need for site-neutral Medicare ...

Failure to use evaluation and management codes in certain situations can lead to lost revenue, according to Anesthesia Business Consultants President and CEO Tony Mira. 1. Cancelled cases. There are ...

Medical professionals aren't always thrilled by Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code revisions, but the changes the American Medical Association is making for 2023 will result in less work for ...

Toni Elhoms, a Denver-based provider coding and education consultant, shared four tips with Medical Economics for preventing claim denials due to incorrect evaluation and management code levels. 1.

In its 2010 Outpatient Prospective Payment System Final Rule, CMS eliminated the use of “consultation” codes (CPT 99241-99245) for new patient consultations by specialty physicians. Starting in 2010, ...

Providers are concerned a new national policy from Aetna involving evaluation and management services will result in inappropriate down-codes. Under the policy, Aetna will automatically down-code ...

CMS plans on adopting the AMA's code revisions and accompanying guideline changes for the E/M office or outpatient visit codes. The evaluation and management (E/M) changes for calendar year 2021 are ...

Administrative tasks in medicine are a driver of physician burnout, an issue that came into sharp focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. The AMA said reducing administrative burdens is a central pillar ...

Nephrologists will likely see minor increases next year in payments for 14 of the 17 billable inpatient and outpatient dialysis services they provide; but the bigger news, according to an analysis of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) today applauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for including proposed reimbursement changes to evaluation and ...

In its comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the draft CY2025 Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS), the American Medical Association badgered CMS on its proposed 2.8% ...