By now, we’ve heard about what ICD-10 will do for physicians. “Done well, ICD-10 will be time-consuming and costly. Done wrong, ICD-10 could cost your practice much more than it gains in financial incentives for programs like meaningful use, PQRS, and e-prescribing,” stated Lucien Roberts in Physician’s Practice.
The article highlights several key points to ICD-10 implementation, including the AAPC’s code translator.
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January 31st, 2012
The upcoming AAPC Workshop “Teach E/M Coding to Your Doctor in One Hour” was recently highlighted on the health care site Scrubs & Suits.com.
“The workshop will teach participants to:
- Learn how to quickly and easily teach physicians to document and select levels for evaluation and management (E/M) services
- Gain tips for problems related to the E/M code selection
- Get the needed buy-in from physicians to reduce the under-coding and the risk of audits
The workshop will also offer a detailed review of the CMS 1995 and 1997 Document Requirements.”
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January 30th, 2012
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has reissued communication to clarify Medicare’s capability to cross over version 4010A1 and National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) version 5.1 batch claims to the supplemental payers that have cut over to exclusive receipt of version 5010 837 claim formats or NCPDP D.0 batch claim formats. Also in the revised communication, CMS downplays the impact on providers permitted to submit claims using the CMS 1500 or UB04 hardcopy (paper) formats.
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January 27th, 2012
Providers and suppliers have until March 31 to comply with the new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) transaction standards for submitting claims electronically, and can even opt out and continue to submit paper-based claims if they so choose. If they want to get paid, however, they’ll have to accept the wave of the future.
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If you are an eligible hospital or provider that hasn’t received your payments through the government’s Medicare Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program, or if you want to challenge a payment amount you’ve received, you are in luck. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released guidance on the appeals process for this incentive program.
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