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Published: Tue, 11/17/20

Unemployment, COVID-19, and Testing Claims Unemployed, uninsured, unbelievable! The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that 12.6 million…

Published: Mon, 11/16/20

COVID-19 CPT vaccine and immunization codes New Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes have been created that streamline the reporting of…

Published: Fri, 11/13/20

Sounding the Alarm About False Positives I am in the process of developing a 90-minute COVID-19 webinar for ICDUniversity in December to outline new…

Published: Thu, 11/12/20

New York ER doctors sue UnitedHealth over out-of-network claims Five New York emergency room physician groups on Monday filed a federal lawsuit…

Published: Tue, 11/10/20

Demand for medical coders, billers accelerates despite pandemic Some jobs have weathered the pandemic far better than others. Medical coders and…

Published: Mon, 11/09/20

ICD-10 Updates Include New COVID-19 Code Although new ICD codes are implemented every year on Oct. 1, the new code—U07.1, COVID-19—was implemented…

Published: Sat, 11/07/20

Physician asset protection: 5 practical lessons An e amination of asset protection issues from current news headlines highlights the defensive…

Published: Fri, 11/06/20

Evaluation and Management – Looking Beyond COVID-19 Now that the initial wave of Covid-19 has passed and providers have mastered the telehealth…

Published: Thu, 11/05/20

The Definition of Medical Necessity in the Era of COVID While the coronavirus pandemic is horrible already, it seems to be getting worse. But COVID…

Published: Wed, 11/04/20

Coding tips to help your practice integrate behavioral health The need to improve patient access to mental and behavioral health services is…