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Coding Guides
These coding guides are your path to accurate coding!
Compliance Guide
You may have heard about the “Seven Elements for an Effective Compliance Plan.” In fact, if you enter that term in a popular web browser “about … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Critical Care Services
Critical care is a complex service provided to a patient who has vital organ system failure or to prevent further life-threatening deterioration of … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Federally Qualified Health Centers
If you are looking for a guide to coding for FQHC visits, here it is. Clinicians in FQHCs use CPT and ICD-10 codes to select their services, but these … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Teaching Physician Rules
The teaching physician rules are Medicare rules that allow for payment for services that are performed jointly between a resident and a licensed … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – How Physician Services are Paid
Have a new staff member or practitioner? Looking for a resource that provides an overview of how physician. services are paid? Download our guide. … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – E/M Services
This coding guide will describe the guidelines for evaluation and management (E/M) services reported in the office or outpatient department, … [Read more...]
Everyday Dermatology Coding
Everyday Dermatology Coding is a 40 page guide to coding dermatology services. Members can download the guide using the link below. This in-depth … [Read more...]
Screening Codes Guide – G0442, G0443, G0444, G0446, G0447
Medicare pays for some screening services for its beneficiaries, using HCPCS codes. These screening codes are time-based HCPCS codes with relatively … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Behavioral Health Services
This guide will discuss CPT® coding for behavioral health services. It includes services performed by therapists, psychiatrists and psychiatric nurse … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Medicare Incident-to and Shared Services
Medicare has specific rules related to billing for non-physician practitioners (NPPs). This guide will discuss billing for nurse practitioners, … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Preventive Medicine Services
Cut through the confusion about preventive medicine, wellness visits, adding a problem-oriented visit and the new HCPCS prolonged services codes for … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Minor Surgical Procedures
This guide is taken from our webinar “Coding for Minor Surgical Procedures”. Medical practitioners often find it easier to do a minor procedure than … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Care Management Services
CMS has a stated goal of recognizing management services provided outside of an office visit. In particular, valuing and paying for care management … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Risk Adjusted Diagnosis Coding for Medical Practices
Payment systems and reimbursement are ever-changing in healthcare and the rules of yesterday may or may not work tomorrow. Medical practices continue … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Newborn and Pediatrics
Neonatologists, pediatricians and family physicians who care for newborns and sick children in the hospital need to select the category of code that … [Read more...]
Coding Guide – Global Surgery
Physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in many specialties perform procedures in the office, surgery center or hospital. The payment … [Read more...]