Margie Scalley Vaught, Healthcare Consultant - CPC, CPC-H, CCS-P, MCS-P, ACS-EM, ACS-OR

09/28/21 | CMS gives more insight into appropriate DOS for imaging

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has guidance for reporting the date of service (DOS) for various services. Information provided for global reporting, technical reporting and professional reporting

07/01/21 | New CPT code for Subchondroplasty

Effective July 1st 2021 - the AMA released a new code for Subchondroplasties - are you ready for it

03/17/20 | Telehealth regulations loosened

With the Coronavirus issues CMS has loosened the regulations and HIPAA issues that have caused concerns about when telehealth can be used. Check out the new release

01/29/20 | New Drug Delivery Codes 20700-20705

Stop using 11981-11983 as of Jan 1st 2020- Use the new drug delivery codes 20700-20705 --

04/04/19 | Watch your "stem cell" wording - On going FBI investigations

For those offices that are using the wording 'stem cells' or charging patients for these services you need to be aware of the FBI ongoing investigations.

02/28/19 | Great article on the issues with 63047 and 22633 and 22630

Find out about the issues between 22633/22630 and 63047 and get the history of these codes. Great information you can use for your private payer appeals.

01/02/19 | Accessing Newsletters

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01/02/19 | Calendar events

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Now that AAOS has posted on their website new 'recommendations' - you can make sure that insurance payers/carriers are going to start looking at changing some of their policies.

In this URL link there is reference to AAOS's recommendations regarding intra-articular knee joint injections and meniscectomies for degenerative tears.
http://www.aaos.org/research/guidelines/TreatmentofOsteoarthritisoftheKneeGuideline.pdf