Often, a physician will decide to perform a subchondroplasty during arthroscopic joint surgery to treat subchondral bone defects (microfractures). A version of this article was first published April 1 ...
According to Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, a consultant specializing in ASC and hospital outpatient coding, billing, reimbursement and operations, when patients come in for arthroscopic shoulder surgery ...
Medicare contractors have received updated instructions and specifications for the Jan. 2012 Integrated Outpatient Code Editor, according to an AAPC report. The contractors will use version 13.0 to ...
A new study suggests "upcoding" practices are growing across outpatient service lines. The report, compiled by researchers at Trilliant Health, found that the share of visits that were coded at higher ...
In 2016 Medicare introduced advance care planning Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to reimburse clinicians for time spent providing the service. Despite recent increases, use of these codes ...
The AMA’s 2026 update to CPT includes new codes for short-term remote monitoring, AI-based diagnostics, and expanded vaccine ...
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