The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made a significant change in the reporting of modifier -59, which will have considerable impact on medical coding in 2015. A new set of specific HCPCS modifiers has been introduced to selectively identify subsets of...
A study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism at the beginning of this year points out that an increasing number of older and middle-aged men in the United States are being tested for low testosterone levels and being prescribed...
Primary care physicians play a major role in delivering definitive care to patients at the point of first contact and continue taking responsibility for the same. They provide care for a wider range of health conditions than most specialists do, thereby introducing a...
Providers can use the new HCPCS code – S8032 recently released by CMS for medical billing purposes when reporting low-dose CT for lung cancer screening. Lung cancer is considered the second most common cancer in the United States affecting both men and women....
The medical coding for otitis externa or “swimmer’s ear” is quite different in ICD-10 compared to that in ICD-9. In the new coding system, ears get their own chapter while earlier they were included along with the eyes. There are several additional...
