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2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan Released

November 13, 2024 | No Comments

Plan seeks to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities through technology. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Assistant Secr...

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Telehealth 2025: The Final Rule

November 8, 2024 | No Comments

Medicare reinstates certain pre-pandemic telehealth policies. COVID-19 public health emergency waivers that applied to Medicare Part B policies for telehealth services ended May of ...

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CMS Finalizes Medicare PFS for 2025

November 8, 2024 | No Comments

Barring Congressional action, a physician Part B pay cut is imminent. In a final rule, put on public display in the Nov. 5 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...

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Claims Denials Are on the Rise

November 4, 2024 | 1 Comment

Survey shows claims denied by payers increased significantly between 2022 and 2024. In the last few years, the relationship between providers and payers has come under increased str...

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The Importance of Diabetes Self-Management Training

November 1, 2024 | No Comments

Know how to code and bill for this essential patient resource. According to the American Diabetes Association, 38 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, with 1.2 million being d...

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Stop CPT® 99232 From Being...

Renee Dustman

November 5, 2024

MAC lists common reasons why it’s not paying claims for this subsequent hospital care code. Noridian Medicare says they saw an inordinate number of appeals for CPT® 99232 in May 2024. In its Med...

Stephani Scott

November 1, 2024

These systems have the potential to revolutionize clinical documentation integrity programs. While the risks of coding-naive artificial intelligence (AI) scribes are concerning, as we discussed last mo...