Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a single modern procedure coding system to eliminate excess costs and lower ...

Along with a new year, January 1 will usher in watershed changes to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) “Current Procedure Terminology (CPT®) Evaluation and Management (E/M) Office or Other ...

The proposed add-on code, currently held by placeholder code 99XXX, will be used to report prolonged office or other E/M services. Providers may need to keep track of two different times when ...

The doctors’ association is blowing up the U.S.’ decades-old coding system for recording pregnancy services and starting fresh next year, bowing to calls from OB-GYNs and other maternity specialists.

In 2010, CPT guidelines told coders they should report an incomplete colonoscopy with modifier -52, which is a reduced services modifier, according to Mr. Cadorette. In 2011, those guidelines have ...

CPT code 97039 has been in a state of constant flux in Florida and recent rulings have created greater change. First, one must understand what 97039 is and its history. According to the American ...

The Current Procedural Terminology code for SCODI was originally developed as a glaucoma diagnostic test. Retina diagnosis usage and codes were added to the coverage, and finally, in 2011, anterior ...