Every autumn, coders brace for a new codebook. Every January, someone in billing asks whether the lumbar puncture CPT code changed again. For 2026, the honest answer is more
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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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Diagnostic upper endoscopy is one of the highest-volume procedures in gastroenterology, and CPT code 43235 is the code that carries it. It is also one of the easiest codes
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Compliance in healthcare is a distinct term; one may even say it is confined to a box. It’s about adhering to all applicable laws, policies, and regulations that govern
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A radiology order comes across your desk marked “MRI abdomen w/wo contrast,” and the claim needs a code. For most facilities performing this dual-phase exam, that code is CPT
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Introduction to CPT Code 99205 Anyone who has spent even a single afternoon inside a gynecology billing department knows the truth a Pap smear sounds like the simplest test
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Introduction Wound care is one of the most clinically intricate and financially unpredictable specialties in modern medicine. Behind every debridement procedure, every negative pressure wound therapy session, and every
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When a patient receives care, nurses are on the front lines documenting evqery symptom, treatment, and response. But these notes do much more than just track a patient’s recovery.
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Trying to make sense of the back-office world of mental health care as a new psychiatric nurse? Pull up a chair. We need to talk about something that rarely
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Introduction Let’s be honest if you’ve spent any amount of time running a medical practice, you already know that the clinical side of things is rarely what keeps you
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