Sometimes it feels as if there are almost as many intricacies to your in-house Neurosurgery revenue cycle management as there are to the complex surgical procedures themselves.
Merging the fine art of Neurosurgery with the business of medicine includes managing all the intricacies of Neurosurgery coding billing and collections while juggling all the changes in compliance regulations and avoiding audits.
The following changes are provided to help you prepare for both coding and compliance changes on the horizon:
Coding changes for 2013 include:
- New codes for angiography that may impact Neurosurgeons doing endovascular treatment
- New code for pre-sacral spinal arthrodesis
- New codes for neurophysiologic studies performed during surgical procedures
- Changes to the CPT language for analysis and programming of Neurostimulators
- Clarifications on the use of needle aspiration of bone marrow for bone grafting
- Changes to the percutaneous sacral nerve codes
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OIG regulations for 2013 include:
- Electrodiagnostic Testing—Questionable Billing (New)
- Evaluation and Management Services—Use of Modifiers During the Global Surgery Period
- Claims Processing Errors—Medicare Payments for Part B Claims With G Modifiers (New)
- Physicians and Other Suppliers—Noncompliance With Assignment Rules and Excessive Billing of Beneficiaries
- Physicians—Error Rate for Incident-To Services Performed by Non-physicians
- Physicians—Place-of-Service Coding Errors
- Evaluation and Management Services—Potentially Inappropriate Payments in 2010
- Laboratory Tests—Billing Characteristics and Questionable Billing in 2010
- Laboratory Tests—Part B Payments for Glycated Hemoglobin A1C Tests
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It’s a full time job for your in-house Neurosurgery coding, billing and collections team just to understand all the nuances and keep up with the changes. Medicare rules can be unpredictable.
Keeping you continually up to date on compliance, while staying abreast of all the changes in Neurosurgery revenue cycle management, is revMD’s specialty… and passion.
revMD, formerly known as Asterino & Associates, is the results-proven alternative for Neurosurgery coding, billing and collections based just east of Phoenix, Arizona. They specialize in compliance for Neurosurgery practices and continually maintain tight adherence to coding and OIG regulations. revMD works closely with practice based Neurosurgery practices to ensure a compliance plan is in place. Fully prepared for OIG regulation changes in 2013, revMD ensures that medical coding, billing and collections for Neurosurgery practices reduce denied claims with the highest levels of compliance while yielding optimal Neurosurgery revenue cycle management. They eliminate the headache for Neurosurgery practices that try on their own to juggle all the changes along with their delivery of patient care. And they help identify new opportunities to generate revenue.
Any more, it takes an industry insider with the experience that only builds when your services have responded to the specific needs of Neurosurgery revenue cycle management for more than 25 years.
For further OIG Work Plan details: Download a PDF of the 2013 OIG Work Plan.