Our experts answer questions about modifiers for diagnostic interventional procedures, Medicare recognition of CPT® code 9066, reporting add-on code for psychotherapy with interactive complexity, reporting G0378 for all payers, and wound care coding.
The federal government has been pushing hospitals to reduce the number of preventable readmissions. Now it's putting some money behind the initiative by adding two new CPT codes that will allow physicians to bill for care that may help keep patients out of the hospital.
If the October 1, 2014, implementation date for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS is not altered by the time this is published, there will be 18 months left until the transition.
HIM directors must revisit and potentially refine processes for patient record restriction requests and requests for electronic copies of medical records because of the HHS HIPAA omnibus final rule.