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Improvement Activities to Help Your Bottom Line
Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop and Use of QCDR Data for Ongoing Practice Assessment and Improvements are two of the medium-weight activities to meet your Improvement Activities requirement. These activities also set you up to optimize your quality measures and increase business for your office.
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Coding
Billing For an E/M
“I am not sure when I should and can bill for an E/M when seeing patients for wound care. Is it reasonable to bill an E/M code if the patient returns for follow up for their ulcer and it is 100% healed? Occasionally hyperkeratotic tissue is present and sometimes I debride the callus to confirm the ulcer has healed. I always spend time on these visits educating the patient on ulcers and the diabetic foot. Would it be appropriate to code for an E/M at this visit since the vast majority of the time is spent counseling the patient prior to discharging them from care?”
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FDA Recalls
Practice Management
Making Orthotics More Understood, Visible, and Profitable
Were you aware that the highest-earning 1% of podiatrists distribute more than 10 pairs of orthotics each week? Nonetheless, most podiatrists fall short of maximizing their earnings potential with orthotics. For many podiatrists, orthotics foot orthotics are an underperforming or overlooked profit center in their practice.
But why?
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Coding
Simple Versus Complicated
“What constitutes the difference between CPT 10120 and CPT 10121 – simple subcutaneous versus complicated subcutaneous foreign body removal?
Take for example a patient is seen in the clinic with a splinter that I was unable to retrieve simply. Instead, it required local anesthesia and deep probing but no incision or suturing. I removed a 2 centimeter wood splinter. It was subcutaneous, it was “more complicated” than a typical splinter to retrieve (needing local and more than usual probing) yet really wasn’t THAT complicated. How do you define complicated in this case? RVU values for CPT 10121 versus CPT 10120 seem to indicate there are very real differences between the two codes.”
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