November 1, 2023 | By Shannon O. DeConda We conducted a comprehensive survey to gain a better understanding of the ongoing debate in the industry about whether the E/M level of services is increasing or decreasing with the latest guidelines implemented in 2021. While we acknowledge that the survey isn’t scientifically conclusive, we urge organizations…
October 20, 2023 | By Jennifer McNamara, CCS, CPC, CDEO, CPMA, CRC, COSC, CGSC, COPC, AAPC Approved Instructor | CEO, Healthcare Inspired, LLC Every year we get updates to the Official Guidelines for Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, and this year for reporting year 2024 we received an update regarding Chapter 21 for…
October 13, 2023 | By J. Paul Spencer, CPC, COC Way back in 1976, as an elementary school kid in the suburbs of Philadelphia, I came across a book in the library called 2010: Living in the Future. In my then-current world of AMC Pacers and seersucker suits, the book promised great things. Apparently,…
Let’s have a conversation about the data column on MDM. Specifically, what I’d like to address is imaging services. When a provider performs an x-ray while seeing a patient, and they are not going to bill a professional component of that test, how do we count that service? Is that service something we can count?…
September 22, 2023 | By Shannon DeConda, CPC, CEMC, CEMA, CPMA, CRTT Let’s get uncomfortably honest. With continued reimbursement cuts, like this year’s $9-12k per provider E/M cut, organizations cannot sustain 100% coding validation. Now, let’s get brutally honest. This is compounded by a lack of truly skilled and knowledgeable coders looking to fill the…