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Clinical trial billing and coding require navigating CPT updates, Medicare policies, and payer-specific requirements. Proper documentation and code selection ensure compliance and accurate ...

Although Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) are not currently evaluating facility evaluation and management (E&M) services, it may not be long before they do. In the 2010 final rule for the hospital ...

Is your practice ready for coming changes to E/M coding? The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and American Medical Association (AMA) will implement ...

The Current Procedural Terminology code for SCODI was originally developed as a glaucoma diagnostic test. Retina diagnosis usage and codes were added to the coverage, and finally, in 2011, anterior ...

The AMA has announced revisions to its new family of Category I CPT codes for Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM) Services and the Remote Therapeutic Monitoring Treatment Management Services (RTM-TMS) ...

2. Revision to guidelines for discontinued colonoscopies. In 2010, CPT guidelines told coders they should report an incomplete colonoscopy with modifier -52, which is a reduced services modifier, ...

On January 1, 2021, new evaluation and management (E&M) coding guidelines for clinical office visits go into effect across the US. These guidelines, which reflect the most significant change in E&M ...