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ProFee, or professional fee, refers to coding the physician side of a patient encounter. To further understand the following Pro Fee coding examples and definition, think: “Profee is personal.”
The Refresh With YES: Obstetrical and Newborn Diagnoses Learning Path teaches learners how to correctly apply the ICD-10-CM guidelines for obstetrical coding and newborn diagnoses, divided into 11-14-minute webinars. This learning path dives into OB GYN diagnosis codes, and coding for newborns, including information about the perinatal period, birth admission coding, and much more.
Knowing how to accurately code and bill telemedicine services has been one of the biggest telehealth problems that practices are running into due to the amount of policy changes released over a short time period and the lack of experience in documenting these services. Here are the other most common challenges in telehealth and most popular questions about telemedicine.
The CPT Editorial Panel conducted a special meeting to expedite the publishing of four new CPT codes for lab tests related to COVID-19 (AMA, 2020). These new CPT codes for laboratory tests, which are available for review on the AMA’s Public Health Resource Center, address the ongoing need to report COVID-19 testing, and include two regular CPT codes and two Proprietary Laboratory Analyses (PLA) codes.
The unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in another unprecedented event: the release of new ICD-10-PCS codes that will be put in use immediately – effective with discharges on or after August 1, 2020, rather than the usual effective date of October 1 (CMS, 2020).
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