The patient called for an urgent visit that disrupted your regularly scheduled office hours. Can you get paid at a higher level for providing emergency services in the office? Back to list Relevant Search Terms: 99050, 99058, 99059, add on, codes
Can I Get Paid for…Signing the Home Health Certification Form
An Overview of Home Health Certification CPT® CMS pays a small fee for the planning, certification, supervision and re-certification of home health services. Don’t do the work and forget to get paid. Find out more about getting paid to sign the home health certification form in this brief video from CodingIntel dedicated to home health […]
Can I Get Paid for…Nurse Visits
Nurse visits – when can you bill for them, and when are the services of the nurse just part of the cost of doing business? Back to list Relevant Search Terms: 99211, incident to, nurse visits
Can I Get Paid for…Travel Counseling
So your patient is going to the Galapagos, and wants your advice. Can you get paid for travel counseling? This short video has the answer. Back to list Relevant Search Terms: 99401,99404, immunizations, preventive medicine
Can I Get Paid for…a Problem Oriented Visit and Wellness Visit on the Same Day
Patients who come into the office for a physical or wellness visit often have a problem they want to discuss, or chronic conditions that need to be assessed and managed. When do these problem oriented discussions rise to the level of an additional problem oriented office visit? This brief video will guide you about when […]
Can I Get Paid to…Discuss End of Life Planning with a Patient’s Child
In 2016, CMS began paying for physicians, NPs and PAs to have a discussion about end of life planning with patients. Find out more in this short video. Relevant Search Terms: 99497, 99498, advance care planning, advance directive, end of life planning
Overview of Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning CPT® Codes Overview Medical practices perform countless tasks every day for which there is no payment. CMS continually states that it wants to support non-procedural and in the past decade has added payment for some non-face-to-face services, including Care Plan Oversight, Transitional Care Management and Chronic Care Management. CPT® Codes 99497 & […]
Pecked By a Parrot. Oh No, Not Again!
When we first implemented ICD-10, we all had a lot of fun with the ICD-10-CM external cause codes. But, do we need to use them? The answer to that is no according to the official guidelines and yes if your payers require them. Here is what the official ICD-10-CM guidelines say, “There is no national […]
Prescription Drug Management and Medical Decision Making (MDM)
Whether selecting a level of service for an E/M encounter, the question arises about what counts as prescription drug management. In both sets of guidelines, it appears in the moderate medical decision making (MDM) row. The question arises, should we credit prescription drug management for new prescriptions, medication adjustments, and renewals? My answer has always […]
Coding for Screening Colonoscopy
An Overview of Colonoscopy Coding Guidelines The ACA, which was passed in 2010, did a great many things, but this is what is relevant for colonoscopies: insurers must cover preventive services, like screenings and vaccines, without charging co-pays, deductibles, or coinsurance to encourage early detection and preventive care. A screening colonoscopy should have no patient […]
No Chart Left Behind: Deadline to Complete Medical Records
Years ago, I worked with a physician who was chronically behind in dictating his notes. The charts were crammed into boxes by date, lining the walls of his office. Sometimes, they flowed over into the hallway or into the break room. This caused major inconveniences when a patient called for a lab result or returned […]
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