Sicker patients may not always mean higher MDM.

If your physician bills a lot of high-level office visits, he may be at risk of an audit — which may not be cause for concern — if his documentation justifies his...

Your solo dilation coding will get easier come 2011.

With no dedicated code for a balloon sinuplasty, you’re not alone if you’ve wondered how to code endoscopic sinus surgery involving the newer tool.

You, however, can confidently navigate to the...

Have your documentation ready for reporting level P4 and higher.

Physical status modifiers, also referred to as P modifiers, PS modifiers, ASAs or ASA P codes, are an important element of your anesthesia coding. If you don’t use them correctly,...

Even though Medicare no longer accepts consult codes, you can still apply modifier 57.

Question: In our ob-gyn office, we used to apply modifier 57 to inpatient consult codes. Now that Medicare doesn’t accept consult codes, how should we use...

Uncircled vaccines, administrations could cost your practice 10%.

Think increasing payments in 2010 is a fairy tale? Your magic wand is right at your front desk.

“Check-out coding can have a significant financial impact,” reported Norman “Chip” Harbaugh, MD, in...