Medical coding fraud can be committed knowingly or unknowingly. To make matters worse, the coding rules are constantly changing. The submission of incorrect coding and billing information usually results in heavy penalties and legal action, and worse, loss of...
It is a welcome move that disease awareness websites such as Epilog.us are providing excellent resources to physicians to help combat their day to day billing and coding challenges, and stay updated on important aspects. Subscribers to the site can access the latest...
The final conditions that hospitals and other healthcare providers must satisfy in order to receive incentives under Stage 2 of the federal EHR incentive program were issued on 23rd August. As per a final rule (PDF) issued by the Office of the National Co-ordinator...
The delay is only one year even though the AMA had called for a 2 year postponement last month HHS (The Department of Health and Human Services) proclaimed a second delay for change to the ICD-10 code set, this time till October 1, 2014. The previous deadline was...
Modifier 59 is a Level I CPT code used to report that a particular procedural service was carried out. It should typically be applied to the secondary code in a pair of codes and not added to Evaluation & Management Codes. If you use this code correctly for...
