by Haugen Academy | Dec 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
** On December 14, 2023 AHIMA announced it was deferring the recertification changes until ‘no earlier than January 1, 2025’. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) has recently communicated changes to the Recertification Policy...
by Haugen Academy | Jan 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
The 2023 AMA CPT code set brought us many revisions to the E/M guidelines. The good news is that we get to use the same set of guidelines for all E/M services! One of the more significant changes was to the inpatient and observation services codes. The observation...
by Mary Bort | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Anesthesia 101 01996 What would you code in the following situation? A 58-year-old female patient undergoes a bilateral total knee replacement. After the appropriate recovery room time, she is transferred up to a floor.Because the surgeon feels the patient is going...
by Jennifer Cayce | Dec 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Q: I just wanted to clarify that with the new hernia repair codes, if a patient has a reducible and a strangulated hernia repaired at once, both would be coded as strangulated hernias?A: That is correct. The guidelines state the hernia repair would be coded as...
by Jennifer Cayce | Dec 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Extensive changes have been made to the CPT codes for reporting hernia repairs effective January 1, 2023. This section needed to be revamped to reflect current clinical practices utilized in these procedures. Here is a quick peek at the structure of the new codes:...
by Shea Lunt | Nov 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Did you see? CMS finalized the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. Key takeaways include: A 4.5% reduction to the CY 2023 Medicare Part B conversion factor will take effect Jan. 1. CMS will continue to not recognize subspecialties for defining initial vs....
