Dec 27, 2016MIPS (Merit-Based Incentive Payment System)Although most of this article relates to how MIPS operates for both anesthesia and chronic pain providers, there are parts that are...
Dec 13, 2016What's New in Anesthesia for 20171. What’s Not New. There are no new anesthesia codes. There are no modifications to the existing anesthesia codes, although there is a...
Dec 12, 2016What's New in Chronic Pain for 2017**This article was revised to correct the descriptions of the new interlaminar epidural codes that were incorrectly defined in the...
Dec 7, 2016CMS Requires Surgeon to Document Reason for Post-op Pain BlockChapter 2 of the National Correct Coding Initiative states, “Postoperative pain management services are generally provided by the surgeon...
Sep 29, 2016Billing Psychological Tests under CPT code 96103Many pain groups bill 96103 for computerized testing of patients. The scope of what constitutes a valid use of 96103 has been in...
Sep 29, 2016May a Billing Company Withhold a Client's PHI?The last sentence of the prior article was partially incomplete. This is the corrected version. The OCR recently released a FAQ...