New CPT code changes for invasive cardiology and interventional radiology will take effect on January 1, 2026, impacting a significant portion of hospital net revenue and threatening to exacerbate ...

Key Takeaways Understanding codes on medical bills can help avoid billing mistakes.Healthcare providers use CPT, HCPCS, and ICD codes for services and diagnoses.Wrong codes can lead to unpaid claims ...

However, if sentinel nodes are biopsied during the same operative session through a different incision, it is appropriate to bill both using the proper code, appending a -59 modifier to the second CPT ...

This Becker’s Podcast episode dives into updates to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set for 2025. Coding experts, Elaine Dunn and Jessica Edmiston from nimble solutions, a leading ...

Physicians who use the Practice Fusion electronic medical record (EMR) will have to pay separately for CPT code licensing fees next year -- and there has been confusion over the price. CPT codes are ...

In 2016 Medicare introduced advance care planning Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes to reimburse clinicians for time spent providing the service. Despite recent increases, use of these codes ...

Use CPT 63045 for cervical or CPT 63047 for lumbar, with additional levels billed with add-on code +63048 inilateral or bilateral. In this procedure, the physician removes the spinous process. If the ...

Grace Kuo, the only pharmacist on staff at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said that the physician-pharmacist collaborative practice protocol under which she sees patients would have to change ...

STRATA Skin Sciences (SSKN) announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CMS, has issued its CY 2026 Medicare Physician Fee ...

CPT codes for spine surgery may not always fit circumstances, and in some cases this prompts calls for reforms. One of those codes, CPT 62380 has the attention of some spine surgeons. The code, for ...