May 29, 2020 | by Anna McGregor, CLP, CPC, CPCO, CPMA, CEMC, CEMA | Director for Coding Integrity, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center/School of Medicine Like a sandstorm, CMS has clouded our coding world in chaos, leaving us to ponder whether all these new flexibilities will become the new standard. Leading up…
May 29, 2020 | By Kari M Keller, CCS, CPC, CPMA, CEMA, CIRCC, CPC-I, CCDS-O | Senior Manager Coding Quality, Inova Health System Those who know me best know that I am an absolute optimist. I can find the positive in almost everything. So, what has this stay-at-home order impacted? We slowed our lives down. We…
May 22, 2020 | By Pam Vanderbilt, CPC, CPMA, CPPM, CPC-I, CEMC, CEMA, CEMA-O NAMAS, like other professional organizations, has a network of compliance professionals who are diligently culling through the multiple interim final rules and daily barrage of e-mails about temporary relaxation of guidance for reporting provider services. This information has become nightly…
Leave the Tylenol at home — you won’t need it for this webinar! What a refreshing webinar this is- not only in this extraordinary season we are currently in, doesn’t make us feel lost, or hanging without help. Shannon Deconda presents in a way that even the beginners of us, to the most experienced, are…
May 15, 2020 | By Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT Over the past month, I have heard comments wondering why we would continue to audit during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE). Many commented that with so much going on, there is not enough time, and the encounters are now telehealth so what is…
May 8, 2020 | By Paul Spencer, CPC, COC Time, as it applies to procedures and services, is a vastly misunderstood portion of the Resource Based Relative Value Scale (RBRVS), the methodology used to generate the relative value units (RVUs) that determine the payment for every CPT code. For many years, information on the…
May 1, 2020 | By Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT Over the years I have found that one of the main risks to an organization are employees who get comfortable in their positions to the point where the explanation for or response to an audit variance is “that is how we have always…