When commenting on the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System proposed rule for calendar year (CY) 2023, the American Hospital Association (AHA) supported the decision to end...

The American Medical Association (AMA) has released the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set for 2023, which contains updates that aim to reduce medical coding burden for evaluation and management (E/M) visits...

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.