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Coding home visits | Cheat Sheet

Use this reference guide to select a level of service for new and established patient home visits, based on the key components or time. Relevant … [Read more...]

Care Plan Oversight | Coding reference sheet

This reference chart for Care plan oversight (CPO) includes CPT® and HCPCS codes, with wRVUs, time and patient status. RVUs are updated for … [Read more...]

Billing physician services for hospice patients | Cheat sheet

Medical practices find the hospice modifiers confusing, and confusion leads to denials and payment delays. Use the decision trees below to help you … [Read more...]

Wellness visits and prolonged care | How to use G0513 & G0514

Medicare stunned us by creating two prolonged services HCPCS codes for use with Medicare covered preventive medicine services in 2018. They may be … [Read more...]

Quick Coding Cheat Sheet – Psychiatry

These quick reference sheets for evaluation and management services cover office visits for new and established patients, outpatient consults, and … [Read more...]

Quick Coding Cheat Sheet – E/M Services

E/M Cheat Sheet with Evaluation and Management Codes This quick reference coding guide to E/M services covers office visits, consults, initial and … [Read more...]

General Surgery E/M Cheat Sheet

This quick reference sheet is packed with useful information. It covers office visits, consults, initial and subsequent hospital visits, and … [Read more...]

Excision of Soft Tissue, Lipoma Removal

This chart is a quick reference for soft tissue excision. It includes anatomic location and size for subcutaneous and subfacial … [Read more...]

How Physician Services are Paid – Infographic

CPT® Codes for Medical Reimbursement CPT® codes, HCPCS, modifiers, global surgical packages, CMS formulas, diagnosis codes, location, and more...how … [Read more...]

Definitive Guide to Documenting Time

Office visits, inpatient care, prolonged services, critical care...properly documenting time can help ensure that you receive the maximum allowable … [Read more...]

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Office Visit Fees in 2021

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CMS’s 2021 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule | Webinar

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Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule for Calendar Year 2021

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FAQ: Scoring the elements in the new E/M guidelines for 2021

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Our mission is to provide accurate, comprehensive, up-to-date coding information, allowing medical practices to increase revenue, decrease coding denials and reduce compliance risk. That's what coding knowledge can do.

In 1988, CodingIntel.com founder Betsy Nicoletti started a Medical Services Organization for a rural hospital, supporting physician practice. She has been a self-employed consultant since 1998. She estimates that in the last 20 years her audience members number over 28,400 at in person events and webinars. She has had 2,500 meetings with clinical providers and reviewed over 43,000 medical notes. She knows what questions need answers and developed this resource to answer those questions. For more about Betsy visit www.betsynicoletti.com.

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