With the effects of medical care insurance change lastly arriving into perspective, the potential that the "fiscal cliff" discussion will surpass the yearly "doc fix" regulation to avoid a large cut to the Medicare Conversion factor, the push for federally-subsidized HER execution, and the coming transition from ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding to ICD-10-CM, there are a lot of businesses for practices and managers these days.
While each of these issues is acceptable, it is essential not to ignore the fundamentals and significance of the yearly CPT, ICD-9 and HCPCS code up-dates and the prospective side results that come with not being ready.
Key Topics and Code Updates:
CPT Code Changes for 2013: Dealing with wide changes (e.g., important up-dates to guidance specifications throughout the CPT, important overarching modifications to cardiac and cardiac imaging solutions, etc.) as well as particular problems that must be recognized to improve appropriate billing in 2013 (e.g., new transitional care E/M codes, billing for Classification III codes, etc.)
When we reach the year 2013, be prepared for over 700 changes, revisions, and/or deletions to the 2013 CPT reference.
2013 PQRS Reporting Changes: Although there are no real code changes to ICD-9 for 2013, not knowing the effect of PQRS reporting up-dates on your coding could price your practice for several decades to come;
ICD-9-CM Code Updates 2013: There are no code up-dates, but there are certainly changes that will affect your diagnosis coding for 2013;
At Oct 1 right around the area which indicates that 2013 ICD-9-CM goes into impact. This implies that as of Oct 1 everyone should be placing their 2013 ICD-9-CM references away and taking out their 2013 sources for use first thing in the day. Now a question to be consider, should it be linking 2013 ICD-9 requirements to services that were conducted prior to the Oct 1 date? The rule is that the 2013 ICD-9 code sets go into impact for solutions starting on Oct 1.
HCPCS II Code Changes for 2013: More PQRS, transitional care G-codes (use them or the CPT equal for Medical health insurance patients), etc.
By: Offshore Medical Billing
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