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While attending the AMA Symposium this week there was a HUGE uproar about eliminating payments for consults. I thought one physician was going to take the head off of the guy from CMS! Whoa baby, talk about hot! Then you have the coders who are...
The Coding Suite team is pleased to announce that the 2010 HCPCS and CPT Codebook is available in pre-release format. Customers with access to the Coder's Resource Center, Coding & Revenue Resource Center, or Audit and Revenue Resource Center will...
Fall is here, and along with the change in the weather comes the annual change to CPT codes.
Evaluation and Management: The E/M Guidelines at the beginning of the Evaluation and Management chapter were updated to expand the definition of Concurrent...
Within the listing of 2010 HCPCS posted by CMS on November 2nd laboratorians will see two new G-codes that redefine coding of qualitative drug analysis billed to Medicare.
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In part 1 of this modifier series we identified and discussed the largest category—Global Package Modifiers, and the following modifier categories: GP, BUN, E/M only, #, Anes, Lab, and OTH. In part 2, we will explore the other categories of...
