Value-focused patient care is transforming medical practice. As rising healthcare costs in the United States challenge the widely used fee-for-service architecture, innovative, patient-centered care ...

The practice of medicine, as a business, is a challenging model. You have minimal control over your prices, no ability to negotiate with your biggest payers (the governmental ones, that is), and ...

Congress should enact legislation to require the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate transitioning to a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The AMA’s CPT update went into effect on Jan. 1. According to the organization, the update will free “physicians ...

If a patient requires critical care services upon presentation to the hospital emergency department, the provider may only report critical care code 99291. Physician and non-physician practitioners ...

Dr. Carlo A.J. Oller, MD, FACEP, discusses what factors constitute critical care, and how to incorporate these elements to ensure proper documentation and coding for emergency services. He also ...

My introduction to CPT* came in May of 2005. A new graduate speech language pathologist, I can still see the memo clearly in my mind posted on a corkboard in the therapy gym “SLP CPT Codes.” ...

A physician-turned-prominent senator has put the American Medical Association (AMA) on notice again, demanding an accounting of the profits it earns from its “monopoly” over the coding system used for ...