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Coding Alert (Bi-Weekly)
Coding Alert is a bi-weekly JHCP newsletter that summarizes important updates, changes and tips concerning Billing and Coding.
- Intended audience: JHM Providers
- Contact: Ena Pajardo, manager, risk adjustment & coding
- Most recent publications:
- December 8th, 2023
- Office/Outpatient Visits Time, 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
- October 31st, 2023
- e-Visit workflows FAQs, Primary Metastatic Cancer
- September 29th, 2023
- 2024 ICD-10-CM update
- September 6th, 2023
- Co-surgery modifier -62
- August 11th, 2023
- Removal of sutures or staples in office setting, eVisit FAQs
- July 25th, 2023
- e-Visit FAQs - Eligible Providers, Time
- July 5th, 2023
- e-visits are coming soon
- June 16th, 2023
- Modifier - FS, FAQs-Transitional Care Management
- June 2nd, 2023
- appropriate use of copy & paste and copy forward
- May 12th, 2023
- Telehealth flexibilities and waivers post public health emergency
- May 2nd, 2023
- AMA 2023 Evaluation and Management Webinar FAQs, FAQs - Primary Care
- April 7th, 2023
- Advanced Care Planning (ACP), FAQ: Time-Based Billing
- March 23rd, 2023
- Observation Order Clarification, AMA 2023 Evaluation and Management Technical Correction, Pre-Operative Clearance
- February 28th, 2023
- Frailty and Exclusions Coding Update, Critical Care FAQs
- February 10th, 2023
- Observation Services Order, Prolonged Services
- Janurary 26th, 2023
- FAQs—2023 AMA MDM Data Reviewed and Analyzed
- January 6th, 2023
- Drug Therapy Requiring Intensive Monitoring for Toxicity
- December 9th, 2022
- AMA 2023 E/M Code Changes FAQs
- November 21st, 2022
- AMA 2023/ E/M Code Changes - Code selection based on local time
- November 8th, 2022
- AMA 2023/ E/M Code Changes - Prolonged Services
- October 24th, 2022
- AMA 2023 E/M Code Changes - Emergency Department Visits
- October 7th, 2022
- AMA 2023 E/M Code Changes - CONSULTATIONS
- September 23rd, 2022
- AMA 2023 E/M Code Changes Initial Hospital Inpatient or Observation Care
- September 9th, 2022
- Code selection based on Total Time
- August 5th, 2022
- AMA 2023 E/M Code Changes (FREE Webinar)
- FAQ: Preventive Medicine Visits vs. Annual Wellness Visits (AWV) Coding
- FAQ: Teaching Physician Rules: Primary Care Exception
- July 12th, 2022
- AMA 2023 CPT® Evaluation and Management (E/M) Code Changes
- June 24th, 2022
- Smoking Cessation Counseling
- June 10th, 2022
- Save the Date: Billing & Coding webinar schedule, Evaluation and Management
- May 27th, 2022
- Bone mass measurement, Hospital inpatient discharge
- April 30th, 2022
- Hospital inpatient discharge, MWV screenings
- April 15th, 2022
- Cologuard CPT 81528, FAQ - Transitional Care Management (TCM)
- April 1st, 2022
- New Laterality Edits for Inpatient Claims, ACP Services
- March 18th, 2022
- Advance Care Planning, Consultations FAQ
- March 4th, 2022
- Heart Arrhythmias & Cardiac Devices, Inpatient Hospital Billing FAQ
- February 11th, 2022
- COVID-19 follow-up visits, FAQ - Split/Shared E/M visits
- January 21st, 2022
- New immunodeficiency codes
- January 7th, 2022
- HEDIS frailty exclusions, Performing and Billing Annual Physical vs. Medicare Wellness Visit
- December 17th, 2021
- Critical Care Services
- December 3rd, 2021
- "Primary Care Exception" billing, Split/Shared E/M services
- November 15th, 2021
- Medical decision making, Capturing the value of your work
- October 29th, 2021
- Coding for hypertension with heart disease, November billing and coding webinar
- October 8th, 2021
- New depression diagnosis codes, new webinar time
- September 24th, 2021
- Billing & Coding webinars, Post COVID-19 diagnosis
- September 10th, 2021
- Vaccine Screening Questions, Transitional Care Management
- August 20th, 2021
- "Active" vs. "History of", specialty and signs/symptoms codes in Ambulatory Care
- August 6th, 2021
- Coding substance abuse disorders, coding I&D/puncture aspiration
- July 23rd, 2021
- E/M Visits billed with AWV, Billing FAQ
- July 9th, 2021
- Telemedicine License Waiver Expirations, Annual Preventive Visit w/ Office Visit
- June 18th 2021
- 2021 E&M Office Visits Clarification Webinar Q/A
- June 4th 2021
- MWV & MSP, Obesity Dx Coding, POC Tests
- May 14th, 2021
- Billing & Coding Webinar Schedule, Consultation Requests
- April 30th, 2021
- Telemedicine, MDM Risk Element, Scribe's Time
- April 16, 2021
- Primary Care Exception, Analyzing Data, TCM
- April 2, 2021
- Time attestation, MDM discussion, test results
- March 19, 2021
- Social Determinants of Health, chronic ulcer coding
- March 5, 2021
- Medicare Wellness Visit by phone only, update to ACP smart phrase requirements
- February 19, 2021
- LOS Calculator issue, Prolonged Service Time (CPT 99417) and FAQs
- February 5, 2021
- Prescription drug management, billing pediatric telemedicine visits and FAQs
- January 22, 2021
- Covid-19, “History of” dx, FAQ
- December 8th, 2023
See more editions of Coding Alert
- November 27, 2020 - 2021 E&M changes - MDM
- September 18, 2020 - 2021 E&M changes - Time
- September 4, 2020 - 2021 E&M changes summary
- August 14, 2020 - Modifier -25, Closing Care Gaps, FAQ
- July 31, 2020 - “Incident to” Services, Medical License/Telehealth Update, FAQ
- July 10, 2020 - TCM Services, Teaching Physician, FAQ
- June 25, 2020 - Telemedicine Attestation Form
- June 18, 2020 - ABN, Telehealth Preventive Care, FAQ
- June 11, 2020 - Coding for Cachexia, Social Determinants of health, FAQ
- June 5, 2020 - Coding for Obesity, Covid-19 Tip Sheet, FAQ
- May 29, 2020 - Coding for Type II DM, Top 12 Missed Diagnoses, Q3 Audit Findings
- May 21, 2020 - Coding for Type II DM with complications, FAQ, Coding Helpline
- May 14, 2020 - Coding for Frailty, Risk Adjustment in Telehealth, Covid-19
- May 7, 2020 - Telehealth
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