Being audited is rarely fun. After all, you're probably going to lose money, face a fine, or both. More and more entities are auditing healthcare claims-Recovery Auditors, Medicare Integrity Contractors, MACs, FIs, commercial payers, and on and on.
The AMA added five new nuclear medicine codes to the radiology section of the 2013 CPT Manual, while revising and deleting a number of codes that represented outdated technology or were bundled into placement procedures.
Our coding experts answer your questions about physician supervision for chemotherapy, billing injectable drugs, Addendum B and coverage, new transitional care management codes, and stent placement with other procedures.