Coding Alert (Bi-Monthly)

Coding Alert is a bi-monthly 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:
  • June 6th, 2024
    •  Transitional Care Management
  • April 19th, 2024
    • Split/Shared services documentation, Dx Specificity and Combination Codes
  • March 8th, 2024
    • Myocardial Infarction and Stroke - “Active” vs. “History of”? , Visit Complexity Add on code G2211 FAQs
  • February 23rd, 2024
    • Visit Complexity Add-on Code G2211
  • January 2nd, 2024
    • Add-on Complexity Code (G2211), Pelvic Exam
  • December 8th, 2023
    • Office/Outpatient Visits Time, 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
  • November 17th, 2023
    • Inpatient Providers – Want to Learn More About Submitting Professional Charges in Epic?, Primary Care FAQs
  • 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

 

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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