RT Welter & Associates is excited to present our monthly Code Spotlight! Each month, RT Welter & Associates will spotlight a unique CPT or ICD-10 code to profile and discuss practice applications of the code, as well as pertinent guideline reminders. ICD-10 Code – E11.65 – Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus with Hyperglycemia ICD-10 code E11.65 represents the…
In a final rule published Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have established new requirements for the use of electronic health records. Check out the article, below, for more information! “We are establishing new requirements or revising existing requirements for eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals participating in the Medicare and…
As part of the new coding format for our newsletter, RT Welter is excited to offer you a new surgery coding series in which we want to help you! The 2nd week of every month we will highlight a complicated surgical case. This week we are highlighting a general surgery case. We want to hear…
Known for putting patient experience first, the Cleveland Clinic revolves around relationship-centered communication. Check out this article, where experts dissect this philosophy and explain why it makes moral and financial sense! Hospitals and providers are more aware than ever that communication and empathy can make all the difference in how a person feels about a hospital stay or medical…
Medicare Wellness Services: Billing for Medicare wellness services can be a huge pain point for any primary care practice. However, the pain is well worth it when you consider that providing these services can result in tens of thousands of additional reimbursement dollars for your practice. These services can reimburse up to $174 per visit.…
The Health Care Freedom Act, which would have repealed employer and individual mandates while leaving some part of the ACA in place, was voted down by the Senate early this morning. In a session that lasted into the wee hours Friday morning, the Senate voted down a “skinny” bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act…
Due to the recent interest to repeal and replace Obamacare, healthcare-provider groups have called on Congress to cut a bipartisan deal on healthcare reforms! “The best approach would be for Congress members to reach across the aisle and address some of the specific problem areas of the Affordable Care Act,” Elizabeth “Betsy” Ryan, JD, president…
Check out this article about how the lack of preparedness could hurt physicians financially, even with the new flexibility shown by CMS. As a group, doctors are ill-prepared to meet the requirements of a law that will change the way they are paid, shows a survey of a thousand physicians by the American Medical Association and…
As part of the new coding format for our newsletter, RT Welter is excited to offer you a new surgery coding series in which we want to help you! The 2nd week of every month we will highlight a complicated surgical case. This week we are highlighting a general surgery case. We want to hear…
Check out this article about a half-dozen changes to the adjudication of Medicare claims-denial appeals that are designed to ease a backlog of cases. The new rules for Medicare claim-denial appeals feature several changes crafted to ease administrative burdens and speed reductions in a backlog nearing 1 million cases. The new rules went into effect…