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The Final Rule for 2022: What’s New and How Changes in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Quality Payment Program Affect Dermatologists
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2022 final rule, which went into effect on January 1, 2022, contains updates affecting the...
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Advocacy Update: Is Your Practice Equipped to Handle Looming Changes in Dermatopathology?
In July 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a proposed fee schedule that will negatively impact practices that...
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Modifier -25 and the New 2021 E/M Codes: Documentation of Separate and Distinct Just Got Easier
Insurer scrutiny of same-day evaluation and management (E/M) and procedure services has increased, and dermatologists should be prepared for more...
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E/M Coding in 2021: The Times (and More) Are A-Changin’
Major revisions for commonly reported office and outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes were implemented on January 1, 2021, by the...
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Practice Expense–Only Codes: No Physician Work, No Sweat
Billing same-day procedures and evaluation and management services is under close scrutiny by insurers. Understanding performance and...
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Modifier -25 Victory, But the Battle Is Not Over
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Let There Be Light: Update on Coding for Photodynamic Therapy and Lasers
Winter is the time when many religions celebrate a renewal of the year as the days begin to get longer. On January 1 of each year...
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Acronymic Despair: MACRA, MIPS, and Me
The year is moving ahead, and we are in the first year with a new president and a new administration. There have been...
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Phototherapy Coding and Documentation in the Time of Biologics
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One Diagnosis and Modifier -25: Appropriate or Audit Target?
An established patient comes into your office with a painful new lesion on the hand. He thinks it may be a wart. You take a focused history of the...
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Coding Changes for 2017
All physicians will see changes in reimbursement in 2017. A new president with a new agenda makes for an interesting time ahead for health care in...