Diagnostic Criteria for Acute Respiratory Failure in Pediatric Patients Provider documentation often describes the patient’s symptoms and assessment without stating the words “acute respiratory failure.”… Read More »CDI Tip: Pediatric Respiratory Failure
2024 brings significant CPT code revisions. This guide will identify important guidelines & parenthetical note additions & revisions. We’ll review anatomy & other pertinent clinical… Read More »2024 CPT Update Guide
CMS updates the NCCI Policy Manual for Medicare Services once a year. This is a general reference tool that the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) use… Read More »2024 NCCI Policy Manual for Medicare Services
2024 CPT TRFA Updates We continue our deep dive into the 2024 CPT changes this week with updates to the codes for Transcervical Radiofrequency Ablation… Read More »2024 CPT Blog: Part 3
Social determinants of health (SDOH) are the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes. Providers can receive additional reimbursement when they document and address those SDOH… Read More »Social Determinants of Health
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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read More »5 Reasons Why Rural Hospitals Should Consider a New Coding Approach