Category: Medical Billing

Cigna's New Policy Will Automatically Downcode Your E/M Claims Effective Oct 2025

Cigna’s New Policy Will Automatically Downcode Your E/M Claims Effective Oct 2025

If you bill Cigna for office visits, mark your calendar. Starting October 1, 2025, Cigna is rolling out a new reimbursement rule that lets the payer quietly cut your

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United Healthcare Just Changed Its Lab Test Reimbursement Rules (Effective Dec 2025)

United Healthcare Just Changed Its Lab Test Reimbursement Rules (Effective Dec 2025)

Starting December 1, 2025, UnitedHealthcare is denying more lab claims before they are ever paid. The insurer’s new Routine Laboratory Testing Policies add automated frequency limits, diagnosis-to-test alignment checks,

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Aetna incident-to billing for mental health: rules, requirements & best practices

Billers who work Aetna claims for behavioral health services run into the same question within their first few months on the job: does Aetna actually follow Medicare’s incident-to rules,

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Top 10 Best Home Health Billing Companies in Michigan

Michigan home health agencies bill under some of the most procedural payment rules in American healthcare. Medicare pays in 30-day periods under the Patient-Driven Groupings Model, Michigan Medicaid rejects

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Chest X-ray (CXR) CPT Code Guide: Documentation, Modifiers, and Reimbursement Tips

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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Skin Tag Removal Coding Guide: CPT Codes, Reimbursement, and Best Practices (2026)

Introduction Skin Tag Removal sounds like the simplest thing a clinic does all week. A Patient Walks in with a Few soft Flesh-colored Growths Tucked into a skin fold

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CPT Code 92507 Explained: Billing Rules, Reimbursement, and Common Mistakes

Introduction Two things about 92507 are both true and a little maddening. It’s the code speech-language pathologists bill more than any other, and it’s the one that gets kicked

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CPT Code 92134 Billing Guide: Medicare Rules, Modifiers & Tips

Introduction A retinal OCT takes maybe two minutes to run. Coding it cleanly takes a good while longer to learn, and fumbling it can quietly drain thousands from a

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CPT Code 76705: Documentation, Modifiers, and Reimbursement Insights

Intro A “limited” exam sounds like it should be the easy one to bill. It almost never is. CPT code 76705 the workhorse code for a focused abdominal ultrasound

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Understanding CPT Code 76705: Requirements, Modifiers, and Compliance

Introduction to CPT Code 36415 Some codes announce themselves. Others hide in plain sight, looking so ordinary that a busy coder waves them through without a second glance and

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