Mental health care professionals work in tandem with primary care providers to ensure that the clinical goals of the patient are met. Collaborative care model has proved to be effective in cutting costs, with improved access and clinical outcomes. In 2017, the Centers...
The opioid crisis has reached devastating proportions in the U.S., leading the government to declare it a national emergency. Latest data suggest that the number of deaths due to opioid misuse surged during the pandemic. In December 2020, the Centers for Disease...
CPT coding changes for moderate sedation (MS) in 2017 will impact reimbursement across various specialties. Outsourced medical billing companies are prepared for these changes that have created new billing and workflow requirements in practices. As a consequence of...
Physician coding companies played a key role in helping healthcare providers across the nation transition to ICD-10. Now recent reports say that there is a glitch in ICD-10, which CMS points out occurred as a result of the changes in the ICD-CM (Clinical Modification)...
Medicare has made many changes to billing and coding for chronic care management (CCM) services in 2017 to improve payment accuracy. There are several opportunities to enhance reimbursement for certain CCM services that were not billable earlier and an experienced...
