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Cyber Attacks: Real Threats to Your Office
Cyberattacks : This is getting very real and very scary for your practice
Esse Health, a healthcare provider in the Greater St. Louis area in Missouri, experienced a cyberattack that impacted its healthcare operations
This event hit major network news in St Louis
https://www.firstalert4.com/2025/05/07/cyberattack-puts-healthcare-hold-hundreds-st-louis-metro/
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Coding
Coding Pearls - Issues with the Radiology Department
“My clinic is at the local hospital. I send X-rays to the radiology department. They are eventually read by a radiologist. However, I actually evaluate the x-rays and interpret them myself. Can I bill that component of the radiology fee? And if I do, will it affect the radiologist reimbursement?”
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FDA Recalls
MIPS
MIPS Update: Eight Improvement Activities Suspended
CMS has suspended Eight Improvement Activities for MIPS
They intend to remove the activities from the program in future rulemaking.
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Coding
Coding Pearls - DMECODING - CPT 99344
“With the loss of CPT 99343, is time a justification for the use of CPT 99344? My initial home visits (and now assisted and congregate living facilities) easily meet or exceed sixty minutes. Before I see patients, they completed a five page demographics that includes two pages of review of systems. I also have the chart notes from the referring physician and/or the CMS-485 from a home care agency (or the input paperwork from the hospice agency) that is all reviewed while face to face with the patient. The physical exam is quite time consuming in and of itself followed by assessment, treatment, plan of care and coordination of care. It seems that everything I can read says that I am justified in billing CPT 99344 using time. Thoughts?”
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