Office Visit CPT Codes: A Complete Guide to Medical Billing and Coding
Most practices don’t lose money on big procedures. They lose it on the 99213 that should have been a 99214, repeated forty times a week. That is the cost
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Most practices don’t lose money on big procedures. They lose it on the 99213 that should have been a 99214, repeated forty times a week. That is the cost
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A CMP is a ten-dollar claim that can quietly cost a practice thousands a year. The payment is small. The denials are not. For those of you who came
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Hospital clinics bill G0463 every day, but many are paid less than they should be. It’s simple code: one clinic visit, one facility charge. Then a payer asks for
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Denial of claims for skin lesion removal is one of the most subtle cash leaks in outpatient dermatology and primary care practices. Providers do minor lesion destructions, file claims
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Your GI team ran an esophageal study, the report is signed, and the claim goes out under 91040. Three weeks later, it comes back denied. The test was fine.
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According to a National Center for Health Statistics data brief published in March 2021, 12.6% of American adults aged 50 and older have osteoporosis, and another 43.1% have low
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A biller who has never touched an orthopedic claim can still recognize CPT code 27447 by reputation alone. It is one of the highest-volume procedure codes in the Medicare
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Medicare Part B paid $406.7 million for the Comprehensive Metabolic Panel in 2024, making it the second-largest lab expenditure of the year behind a genetic test for infectious agents.
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Transesophageal echocardiography is a routine procedure attached to an unusually fragmented code set. The TEE CPT code family splits a single exam into components, keeps separate codes for congenital
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Introduction Taking the billing of chest X-rays easy, but it’s not one wrong CPT code can cost you the whole claim. One overlooked detail, just like the wrong view
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