The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued Transmittal 1867 (pdf), which is designed to help physicians, non-physician practitioners and hospitals, as well as Medicare Administrative ...

The fourth problem addressed in ASC anesthesia billing would be: use correct modifiers. Because most knee, shoulder, elbow, etc. diagnostic arthroscopy procedures are done now in ASCs, the request for ...

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Here are five tips for billing and coding for spine procedures at surgery centers from National Medical Billing Service’s Senior Vice President, Coding Angela Talton. 1. Obtain correct physician ...

Each time that an anesthetic is rendered, the patient is assigned an ASA physical status modifier which describes the complexity of the service provided. Although many practitioners see this as simply ...

MODIFIERS give us information about a noun or pronoun in a sentence. They are important because they help to paint the true picture of the information we seek to convey to our reader or listener. The ...

On January 1, 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) introduced 4 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System modifiers, known collectively as the - X(EPSU) modifiers, as a subset of ...

For comparisons that are negative or downward, ‘less’ and ‘least’ are used before the positive form of the modifier. To make your writing clear and concise, be careful to avoid using two modifiers ...