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A Potpourri of Things to Do Correctly
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- Daniel M. Siegel, MD, MS
When you pick up the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) manual and read it, you may wonder what certain terms mean and how they may be looked at...
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The Proposed Rule and Payments for 2017: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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- Daniel M. Siegel, MD, MS
Just as Charlie Brown looks forward to the coming of the Great Pumpkin each Halloween, those of us who dance in the minefields of payment policy...
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Work Intensity and IWPUT
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- Daniel M. Siegel, MD, MS
Practice Points Intraservice work per unit of time (IWPUT) examines skin-to-skin work of a procedure. The removal of global period visits will...
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Global Visits, 99024, and MACRA: 3 Things You Should Think About and Lose Sleep Over But Probably Do Not
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- Daniel M. Siegel, MD, MS
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Electronic Health Records, Autocoding, and Ewe: Don’t Be a Sheep!
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- Daniel M. Siegel, MD, MS
Many electronic health record programs may make you a target for audits and requests for the return of payments for a variety of reasons. Although...
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Coding Changes for 2016
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- Daniel M. Siegel, MD, MS
In order to ensure accurate coding, which is critical to accurate reimbursement, physicians should purchase a new CPT manual every year. In this...