Coding and Billing Updates

• URGENT - All Physicians Need To Be Financially Prepared to Withstand 2 TO 4 WEEKS WITHOUT MEDICARE PAYMENTS Due To Indiana Medicare's Transition to a New Financial Accounting System

  February 7, 2012

  An urgent update from your Academy's Coding and Billing specialist....

---

• CMS to Hold 2012 Claims

  December 19, 2011

  An important message from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regarding payments in 2012....

---

• 2012 CPT Changes Affecting Family Physicians

  November 21, 2011

  All the lastest changes from the AMA's “CPT and RBRVS 2012 Annual Symposium.”...

---

• E-Rx Incentives and Penalties for 2012, 2013, and 2014!

  November 7, 2011

  The deadline for submitting a 2012 Medicare e-RX exemption application is extended through 11:59 PM Tuesday, November 8....

---

• September's Coding and Billing Updates

  September 8, 2011

  Your Need-To-Know Coding updates for September are here! (Includes Medicare Preventive Services info from Annual Convention.)
  ...

---

• Deadline Looms for Avoiding the 2012 Medicare Electronic Prescribing Payment Reductions for 2012 Services

  June 13, 2011

  Are Physicians and Nonphysician Practitioners Beginning to Panic???...

---

• Medicare's Annual Wellness Visit

  May 26, 2011

  The lastest info on Medicare's AWV & other Medicare-covered preventive services.
  ...

---

• Three New Medicare-Covered Preventive Services Quick Reference Charts Released

  April 18, 2011

  CMS just released the following quick reference charts to explain who is eligible for the different Medicare preventative and wellness services. Be sure to take a look at the "ABC's of Providing the Annual Wellness Visit" which should clarify questions both physicians and patients have on who qualifies for the new service and what physicians need to...

---