by Tommi Mooney | Mar 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Coding for injection and infusion administrations is often more intricate than it first appears. Various factors, such as the method of administration, the specific medications used, and the timing of treatments, all play a role in how these services are...
by Shea Lunt | Dec 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Congress recently passed the American Relief Act of 2025, extending key Medicare telehealth policies through March 31, 2025. Highlights include: Removal of geographic restrictions and expanded originating sites Broadened telehealth eligibility for practitioners...
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...
