Recently, I was working with a client to help them understand “incident to” billing. We were discussing a situation in which a physician and a physician assistant each saw the patient as part of a visit in the clinic.  The clinic administrator referred to it as a shared visit. I totally get...

The American Medical Association has issued a category III current procedural terminology code for Figur8’s sensor fusion system combining inertial measurement system and surface mechanomyography. The device was designed to accurately assess...

Doctors can use a government database to compare their practice patterns to others across the nation, says a former Wall Street trader turned physician. The database, maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) includes annual data on payment...

The fiscal year (FY) 2023 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule, released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is short on coding news but remarkably long on its descriptions. The final rule weighs in at 2,087 pages.

When it comes to usability, doctors give electronic health record (EHR) systems an “F”. And that poor usability correlates with physician burnout, according to a study published today in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Researchers surveyed 870 U.S. physicians about EHRs and asked them to rank system usability with a score of 0 to 100. The mean score was...