Emergency department (ED) visits identified by CPT code 99285 require three key components: comprehensive history, comprehensive examination, and medical decision making of moderate complexity. However, a large proportion of all emergency department (ED) visits are...
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) recently announced the release of the proposed rules for “Stage 3 of the...
It is very important to remain very cautious when coding for burns in an emergency setting. This is mainly because the medical coding rules and regulations for burn care are complex, are subject to change often and errors can cause big revenue loss to your practice....