The AMA will help physicians report and fight insurer downcoding. Here's how practices can find, log and appeal downcodes now, using MGMA's draft bill as the standard.
|Articles|August 29, 2017
Inventing New Medical Billing Codes
Author(s)Jon Carter
What happens when a patient presents with a condition that there is currently no billing code in the system for? This doctor finds out the hard way.
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