The doctors’ association is blowing up the U.S.’ decades-old coding system for recording pregnancy services and starting fresh next year, bowing to calls from OB-GYNs and other maternity specialists.

Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a single modern procedure coding system to eliminate excess costs and lower ...

5. Pain management injection codes. The AMA has also started adding fluoroscopy into the primary portion of the pain management injection CPT codes, so just like the facet injections, coders can no ...

There are over 300 changes you need to know. As denial prevention and accurate reimbursement weigh heavy on revenue cycle leaders, staying up to date on code updates minimizes these challenges greatly ...

While the standardization of CPT codes has been a net positive for orthopedics in terms of billing and reimbursement, there are some nuances that standard codes don’t address on a case-by-case basis.

Cervical mapping is a separately identifiable service performed by a physician during a colposcopy examination. A version of this article was first published December 18, 2020, by HCPro's Revenue ...

Codes 46221, 46945 and 46946 are for coding internal hemorrhoidectomy procedures. CPT 46221 is for rubber band ligation and CPT 46945/46 are using other than rubber band ligation. Codes 46945/46 have ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — In this video from Orthopedics Today Hawaii, William R. Beach, MD, spoke about the latest ...

The first of November we welcomed the publication of the CY 2020 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Final Rule, which clarified coding rules around cognitive function intervention. The same week we ...

The American Medical Association released its CPT 2026 code set, which includes the new CPT code 63032 fr bone-anchored annular closure, Intrinsic Therapeutics said Oct. 24. The new add-on CPT code ...