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With the recent release of Medicare’s 2018 Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes that could significantly impact telehealth. Not only has Medicare added new CPT codes to telehealth’s list of approved codes, but they have also made it easier to get reimbursed for remote patient monitoring services.Read about Great news for telehealth Medicare reimbursement

November is National Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Awareness Month. An estimated 16 million Americans suffer from COPD and possibly millions more are likely to have the disease and not know it. Did you know that this disease kills more than 120,000 Americans each year? To put it in more realistic terms, that is oneRead about Understanding COPD and how it is diagnosed

Just as location is important to a realtor, diagnosis documentation should be important to billing E/M services. Don’t lose sight that the documentation does not need to include a diagnosis pulled from a previous visit or previous diagnosis that does not affect the current illness or treatment plan. It is always important to remind theRead about Staying Focused by Coding the Current Encounter