News & Analysis

October 1, 2015
Briefings on APCs

When a patient suffers a traumatic injury or poisoning, we need to report how they became injured and where they were when it happened. You already know this from ICD-9-CM.

October 1, 2015
Briefings on APCs

Because CMS has not created any national ED E/M guidelines, providers must create their own criteria for each visit level.

October 1, 2015
Briefings on APCs

Use this 10-question quiz to determine how well you understand common medical prefixes and suffixes.

September 29, 2015
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include: Claims processing Medicare Secondary Payer (MSP) policy and procedures regarding ongoing responsibility for medicals (ORM); Maintenance and update of the temporary hook created to hold OPPS claims that include certain drug HCPCS codes; and more!

September 29, 2015
Medicare Insider

This week’s note is part II in a series of three notes about the four parts of Medicare. Click here for the in-depth analysis. 

September 22, 2015
Medicare Insider

This week’s updates include the SNF Consolidated Billing update and a special edition MLN Matters article regarding claims submission alternatives for providers who have difficulties submitting ICD-10 claims.

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