These articles will assist you when it come to billing Medicare. These articles cover smoking cessation therapy, chronic care management, medicare modifiers, and many more helpful topics.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released new billing requirements for chronic care management services. CMS initiated these latest billing changes in order to improve payment accuracy for CCM services as well as reduce the administrative burden for providers.
Continue ReadingHow do you bill for smoking cessation counseling? Who’s covered? Who can perform the service? What codes should be used? Are there documentation requirements? How much does it reimburse? Billing 99406 and 99407 is simple if you have the all the information.
Continue ReadingThe Advanced Beneficiary Notice can be tricky. Here are five strategies to help your team achieve success so that you are not left out of pocket.
Continue ReadingSee how to bill for Medicare’s Chronic Care Management (CCM) services using CPT Code 99490. This service is for non-face-to-face coordination of care services for Medicare patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Continue ReadingJanuary 1, 2015, CMS will officially roll out four new HCPCS modifiers that can be used when billing Medicare claims. Dubbed the –X{EPSU} subset, they may or may not be used instead of modifier 59. This post has a few examples of when you might use each of these new modifiers. Leave a comment on how your office uses the new modifiers.
Continue ReadingMedicare recently announced they’ve established four new modifiers – XE, XS, XP, and XU – that may be used in lieu of modifier 59. The codes are more specific and become effective January 1, 2015.
Continue ReadingVIDEO – Medicare changed how to bill the influenza vaccine on January 1,2011. The Q codes for flu vaccine include Q2035, Q2036, Q2037, Q2038 and Q2039. Learn more.
Continue ReadingMark asks if his doctor coded his full routine physical exam properly using CPT code 99397, which is not covered by Medicare, or if the doctor should have used the Annual Wellness Visit code, G0438 (or G0439), which is covered by Medicare. What’s the difference? Which code does Medicare pay?
Continue ReadingMedicare provides coverage for Annual Wellness Visits. This benefit was included in the Affordable Care Act of 2010. Medicare has come up with two HCPCS codes for these well visits for medical billing purposes. The codes are G0438 and G0439.
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