May 8, 2025
Event date June 19th, 2025
Guest presenter Shannon McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CEMC, CRC, CCDS, CCDS-O
This webinar will focus on selected CPT® modifiers that tend to be problematic for coders and claims processing. The instructor will focus on the application of modifier-22 and -52 including commonalities and differences as stated by the AMA as well as supportive citations from the Medicare Claims Processing Manual.
This article will review the codes and guidelines for the following behavioral health screening and testing services: Assessment of Aphasia and Cognitive Performance Testing Developmental And Behavioral Screening and Testing Neurobehavioral status examination Assessment of Aphasia and Cognitive Performance Testing CPT© codes for the assessment of aphasia and cognitive performance testing include: 96105 – Assessment […]
Event Date May 22nd, 2025
Guest presenters Pam D’Apuzzo, CPC, ACS-EM, ACS-MS, CPMA and Debra Rossi, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPMA of VMG Health
Combining CPT® guidance and extensive audit experience, this session will address definitions and documentation related to acute and chronic conditions, stable or with exacerbation/progression or side-effect, how an undiagnosed new problem with an uncertain outcome differs from an acute, uncomplicated condition, and have examples of an illness with systemic symptoms and “high” in the number and complexity of problems addressed.
Event date May 8th, 2025
This webinar will review CPT® guidance for reporting critical care, including the condition of the patient, the interventions, and time spent. The webinar will discuss what services may be reported separately from critical care.
Medical Nutrition Therapy Services (MNT) have been a covered benefit under Medicare since the early 2000’s. This article will describe the rules related to coding for medical nutrition therapy services for Medicare patients. This article also addresses common questions about coverage under the Medicare benefit with brief answers and links to the source documents for […]
Recorded April 24, 2025
Guest presenter Seth Canterbury, CPC, CPC-I
When the method for selecting the level of E/M services was changed for 2021 (office visits) and 2023 (other visits), the concept of “risk” underwent significant revision. No longer was this concept confined to just one element/subcomponent of MDM.
For dermatologists, revenue in the office is generated by procedures and office visits. Often, both are provided on the same day. See the dermatology section of our specialty page for articles about the use of modifiers 25, 51, and 59. Frequency distribution for new and established patients 2023 E/M data released at the end of […]
Recorded April 17, 2025
Coding for prolonged services requires practitioner education, careful documentation and coder oversight. These codes are the opposite of “set and forget.” CPT and CMS use different codes and have different time thresholds. For some services, CMS allows time spent on services done on a different date!
CMS developed new HCPCS codes for primary care practitioners who provide care management services and communications-technology based services on a monthly basis. These are an alternative to other care management codes, and acknowledge that much of the work caring for patients occurs outside of regular office visits. These Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM) codes are […]
Prolonged services codes function as add-on codes to the highest-level Evaluation and Management (E/M) services in certain categories. To use prolonged care, providers must select the primary code based on time, which is explicitly stated in both the CPT® and HCPCS definitions of prolonged services. For billing purposes, the full 15 minutes of prolonged services […]
If you are looking for a guide to coding for Rural Health Center (RHC) or Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) visits, here it is. Clinicians in RHCs and FQHCs use CPT® and ICD-10-CM codes to select their services, but these are submitted with HCPCS qualifying visit codes. It’s easy for clinicians in these mission driven […]
CMS covers counseling to prevent STI in certain circumstances. The code is G0445. G0445 – Semiannual high intensity behavioral counseling to prevent STIs, individual, face-to- face, includes education skills training & guidance on how to change sexual behavior, performed semi-annually, 30 minutes. The patient must be referred by a primary care provider to be eligible […]
This article covers CPT® and diagnosis codes used for screening for other sexually transmitted illnesses. It includes descriptions and screening criteria. To tell whether or not you can collect a co-pay for the testing or not can be found on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPTF) website [1]. The Affordable Care Act mandated that […]
The teaching physician guidelines are Medicare rules that allow for payment for services that are performed jointly between a resident and a licensed attending physician (the teaching physician). This downloadable coding guide from CodingIntel provides an explanation of teaching physician rules for E/M services and specialty specific services.
Overview of Hospice Care Additional Services (non-Hospice Organization) Medicare beneficiaries who have a terminal illness with a life expectancy of six months or less can elect to have their end-of-life care provided by a hospice organization (the “hospice”). Medicare then pays hospice to provide all the care that the patient needs that is related to […]
This quick reference guide breaks down who must document what for which services as outlined in Medicare’s teaching physician rules.
Recorded March 20th, 2025
CMS continues to develop new HCPCS codes to describe services that promote their healthcare agenda, and are not in the CPT® code set. This webinar will address a select few of the newer services from this year and last year.
Aftercare visit codes are assigned in situations in which the initial treatment of a disease has been performed but the patient requires continued care during the healing or recovery phase, or for the long-term consequences of the disease. ICD-10 makes two important points about the use of aftercare codes in the final chapter. The aftercare […]
Recorded February 20th, 2025
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) operate in rural and urban areas, and provide services to Medicare, Medicaid patients and privately insured patients. Rural Health Centers operate in rural areas and also provide services to Medicare, Medicaid and privately insured patients.
Recorded February 4th, 2025
Evaluation & Management E/M Services: Guest presenters Pam D’Apuzzo, CPC, ACS-EM, ACS-MS, CPMA and Debra Rossi, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPMA of VMG Health
Surgical Procedures & Diagnostic Tests: Guest presenter Pam Warren, MHA, COC, CPC, Fellow
Auditing an individual record is one part of conducting an internal or external audit. Anatomy of an audit will look at the entire audit process including: identifying the type and purpose of the audit, necessary research, record selection, utilization of appropriate audit tools, and reporting and response.
Physicians and qualified health professionals (QHP) can gain reimbursement for up to eight counseling sessions per year for HIV risk assessment, risk reduction and medication adherence, according to a recently issued national coverage determination (NCD). Background On September 30, CMS issued a NCD 210.15, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Prevention, which shifts […]
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