by Mary Pat Whaley | Jul 5, 2011 | Collections, Billing & Coding, Day-to-Day Operations, Physician Relations, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
There is no one, and I do mean no one, in your medical practice who does not need to know the basics of coding. Here is why: Providing services to patients is the business of healthcare. Every person who relies on healthcare for their living should understand...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Mar 17, 2011 | Medicare & Reimbursement, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
There are 11,831 new edit pairs, which pushes the total for effective edits to 709,527. There were 346 terminations for a net gain of 11,485. In this release, we find that there are around 350 edit pairs that have termination and/or effective dates retroactive to an...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Aug 1, 2010 | Medicare & Reimbursement, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
Here’s your pop quiz: The NCCI edits are: A. pairs of services that should not be billed by the same physician for the same patient on the same day. B. definition refinements for HCPCS codes. C. diagnosis codes (ICD-9) that cannot be billed together on a CMS...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Sep 13, 2009 | Medicare & Reimbursement, The Cohen Report (NCCI & RVUs)
For those of you who have not tapped into the amazing wealth of information generously shared by Frank Cohen, go to his site now and see what he has that could help you. Most recently Frank analyzed the October 2009 NCCI Edits Release 15.3 and organized the...
