We were honored to have Charmaine be our inaugural Top Gun Spotlight. Charmaine is the Senior Director of HIM, Coding & Revenue Management Administration at Orlando Health. Here is our interview with her. UASI: What is your mini-biography, your history, how did you get into the industry? Charmaine: My experience began as a manager in… Read More »Charmaine C. Hall
2024 CPT VBT Updates We continue our deep dive into the 2024 CPT changes this week with a focus on the new established Category I codes and impacted Category III codes for Anterior Thoracic Vertebral Body Tethering (VBT) due to increased adoption and utilization. VBT is used to correct scoliosis without spinal fusion using a… Read More »2024 CPT Blog: Part 2
2024 E/M Time Revisions The goal of this blog series is to investigate further the changes to CPT in 2024. We’ll begin with E/M time revisions. The Evaluation & Management section saw major changes for office visits in 2021 including assigned “time ranges for E/M codes 99202 – 99205 and 99212 – 99215. In 2023… Read More »2024 CPT Blog: Part 1
Continued discussion surrounding the RA/HCC V28 changes. This week we’re going to re-visit a few of the RAF/HCC perceptions to alleviate possible confusion. Recently, I had a few conversations about RAF/HCCs that leads me to believe there is some misunderstanding about the overall concept of this prospective payment system. There are two models for HCC… Read More »HCC Blog – Part 4
Here is our cheat sheet for changes you can expect to CPT in 2024. Overview: Here is a quick summary of some of the more significant changes. Evaluation & Management Surgery: Musculoskeletal Surgery: Respiratory System Surgery: Cardiovascular System Surgery: Urinary System Surgery: Female Genital System Surgery: Nervous System Surgery: Eye & Ocular Adnexa Radiology Pathology… Read More »CPT 2024 Changes – Here we come!
Accurate, defensible, compliant coding is essential to the revenue cycle of all healthcare organizations, particularly Critical Access Hospitals which can be located in rural regions of the U.S. Many rural hospitals struggle with how to meet coding needs in a way that’s assessable for their business. Outsourced coding can be a great solution for these… Read More »5 Reasons Why Rural Hospitals Should Consider a New Coding Approach
Topic: Managing Winter Blues & Holiday Stress The holiday season can be a time of great joy, and for many, great stress. The presence of gloomier weather, time change due to the end of daylight savings, and overall increase in demands and obligations further contribute to feelings of stress, depression, and seasonal affective disorder. Winter/Seasonal… Read More »Holiday 2023 CDI Scenario Discussion
In this week’s RA/HCC discussion, we are looking at a few of the HCC modification changes. As previously discussed, the HCC changes are extensive and the information provided below are just a few examples of these V28 changes. Neoplasm Disease Group Liver Disease Group Blood Disease Group Cognitive Disease Group Substance Use Disorder Disease Group… Read More »Bi-Weekly RA/HCC V28 Changes Discussion
To round up our other ICD-10 update guides, the team has pulled together a guide for the DRG updates for 2024. In this guide you’ll find:
UASI is please to announce two new members of it’s consultancy team. Gloria Johnston, MBA, RN, RHIT, CCS-P has joined UASI as a member of the Senior Leadership Team in the role of Senior Director of Strategy. Gloria will be guiding UASI’s strategy to provide leading health systems solutions to deliver revenue cycle optimization and… Read More »UASI Announces Consultancy Team Additions