Some surgical care doesn’t end in a single operation, and the patient needs additional surgery in the postoperative period. Complex cases may be staged. Other cases may require an unexpected return to the operating...
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Answers to questions that linger since Medicare Advantage organizations started implementation for anti-VEGF treatments.
In August 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced plans to institute step therapy for some Medicare beneficiaries...Billing for a procedure done during the global period of a prior procedure.
Physicians and billers are often confused regarding which modifiers to use when a procedure is performed in the global period...
We are often asked a simple question — whether removal of benign skin lesions is a covered service. The answer, alas, is complicated: “Sometimes.” This column will explain when the removal is a service...
Some changes have been made to the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Here’s what you need to know.
This article addresses the following questions:- I saw Medicare has released the 2020 Proposed Rule. Can you...