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2018 ICD-10 updates will soon go into effect on October 1st. These changes will impact encounters for dates of service October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018. It is imperative that your organization has up-to-date coding resources and a keen understanding of the changes that will impact your reimbursement! This year’s ICD-10 updates include 363…
DetailsRT Welter & Associates is excited to present our helpful career advancing tips and strategies to sharpen the skills prospective employers look for in a coder! No matter how much we plan things out and hope for the best, there will inevitably, always be something that we didn’t think of or plan for. That is…
DetailsGOP Senators are working quickly in an effort to garner votes to replace the ACA (Affordable Care Act). Check out the most important things to note about this replacement effort, below. Republican efforts in Congress to “repeal and replace” the federal Affordable Care Act are back from the dead. Again. While the chances for this…
DetailsEffective for claims with dates of service on or after Oct. 1, 2017, UnitedHealthcare will reimburse the appropriate evaluation and management (E/M) procedure code which describes the office visit, hospital care, nursing facility care, home service or domiciliary/rest home care reported in lieu of a consultation services procedure code. This notification will be the first…
DetailsRT 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. M48.062 – Spinal Stenosis, lumbar region, with neurogenic claudication The list of ICD-10 code updates is…
DetailsAs 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…
DetailsAs a result of the many provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI) was created to promote quality healthcare, stronger health outcomes, and encourage fiscal responsibility. CMMI acts as the facilitator for designing the most efficient payment methodology for reimbursing healthcare providers based on value rather than volume. CMMI also…
DetailsBiomechanical Device Coding: Spine surgery has been one of the specialties hardest hit by recent CPT code bundling, NCCI edit updates, code revisions and additions, and RVU decreases. Most recently, biomechanical device coding changes were implemented, which impacts many spine surgery practice’s bottom lines. This change essentially states that all anterior instrumentation is now bundled…
DetailsCMS released a proposed rule earlier this month that could cancel two bundled payment programs, and significantly limit a third. Two bundled payment programs could be canceled before they begin, and the scope of a third will be significantly limited if a proposed rule released by CMS August 17 is finalized. The agency proposes cancellation…
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