Heading into 2020, adoption of telehealth services was already on the rise. Then the health crisis hit. Now it appears that COVID-19 has not only cemented telehealth’s place in the healthcare landscape but done so in a very big way. McKinsey & Co. is projecting that virtual visits could potentially account for $250 billion, or 20%, of […]
Much attention has rightly been given to the major overhaul of Evaluation and Management (E/M) office visit codes set to take effect in 2021, aimed at reducing physicians’ documentation burden. However, changes that took effect on January 1, 2020, have already acknowledged evolving methods of patient communication and medical practice that do not require face-to-face […]
Since there are huge CPT coding updates for 2020, there are no new anesthesia codes. The newly proposed rule only includes new and revised codes for a few certain pain procedures. The rule provided for lowering of relative value units (RVU) for certain nerve injections codes which pay less in 2020. Some of the New […]