Clinically Integrated Networks and How They Can Benefit Anesthesiologists (December 2023) (Member exclusive)
Recruitment and Retention in a Tight Market for Anesthesia Providers (April 2023)
Point of Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) (March 2023) (PDF)
Revised Surgical Hernia CPT Codes (March 2023) (PDF)
Critical Care Services Billing Update (January 1, 2023)
RFPs and Your Value Proposition (December 2022)
Economic Toolkit and Member Valuation for Office-Based Anesthesia Practice Expenses (October 2022)
Coding and Billing for Labor Epidurals (January 2022) (PDF)
The Facts on Facet Joint Injections (April 2021) (PDF)
The List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (March 2021) (PDF)
Distinguishing Between a Pre-Anesthesia Evaluation and a Separately Reportable Evaluation and Management Service (Revised March 2023) (PDF)
Provider Relief Fund: Information on Recipient Reporting Requirements (July 2020) (PDF)
Annual Commercial Conversion Factor Survey (June 2020) (PDF)
Locum Tenens and Reciprocal Billing Arrangements Under COVID Waivers (May 2020) (PDF_1)
COVID Coding: Modifiers CR and CS andNew ICD-10CM, HCPCS and CPT Codes (April 2020) (PDF_2)
Telehealth: Background and Flexibilities Extended During the Public Health Emergency (April 2020) (PDF_1)
Staying Up to Date on Coding and Billing Information (March 2020) (PDF_1)
Anesthesia Payment Basics Series: #5 Qualifying Circumstances (November 2019) (PDF_1)
Anesthesia Payment Basics Series: #4 Physical Status (September 2019) (PDF_1)
Anesthesia Payment Basics Series: #3 Payment, Conversion Factors, Modifiers (August 2019) (Revised December 2022) (PDF_1)
Anesthesia Payment Basics Series: #2 Anesthesia Coding Resources (July 2019) (PDF_1)
Anesthesia Payment Basics Series: #1 Codes and Modifiers (June 2019) (PDF_1)
Facility Based Reporting in MIPS –New Option for 2019 (May 2019) (PDF_1)
New Medicare Beneficiary Identifier – Are You Ready? (April 2019) (PDF_1)
Updates to ASA Statements Relevant to Coding and Billing (March 2019) (PDF_1)
Anesthesia Information Management: Making Sure Your Data is Complete (February 2019) (PDF_1)
Dangling Modifiers: Modifiers You Need to Know Even if You Don’t Need to Use (January 2019) (PDF)
Acronyms: Starting the Year on the Same Page (STYOTSP) (January 2019) (PDF)
2019 Relative Value Guide Updates Include Anesthesia Time and Field Avoidance (December 2018) (PDF)
Anti-kickback Statute and Physician Self-Referral Laws (Stark Laws) (November 2018) (PDF)
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT 2019: What Does It Offer for Residents? (November 2018) (PDF)
2019 CPT® – New Codes and New Instructions (October 2018)
Medicare Remittance Advice to Include the New Medicare Beneficiary Identifier in October (September 2018) (PDF)
An Introduction to Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) (September 2018) (PDF)
ASA Statements/Expert Consensus Documents Relevant to Coding and Billing (August 2018) (PDF)
Evaluation and Management: Changes Ahead (August 2018) (PDF)
Medicare Payment Systems: Separate but Related (July 2018) (PDF)
Proactively Addressing Physician Burnout (July 2018) (PDF)
Modifier 51 vs Modifier 59 (May 2018) (PDF)
Submitting Paper Attachments to Medicare Claims (May 2018) (PDF)
Your MIPS Score Sticks With You (April 2018) (PDF)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Continued (April 2018) (PDF)
The Perioperative Surgical Home Learning Collaborative 2020: Helping Institutions Meet the Demands of a Rapidly Approaching Health Care Paradigm (March 2018) (PDF)
Key Performance Indicators: How Do You Measure Up? (March 2018) (PDF)
New Medicare Cards Transition Begins April 1, 2018 – Will You Be You Ready? (February 2018) (PDF)
Update to 2018 ASA CROSSWALK® Entries for Procedure Codes 45330 and 45378 (February 2018) (PDF)
The 2018 MGMA Compensation and Production Survey is Now Open! (January 2018) (PDF)
Making a List … for 2018 (December 2017)
Practice Management Tips and Tools - Building a Strong Appeal (November 2017)
Practice Management Tips and Tools - Denial Management 101 (November 2017)
Practice Management Tips and Tools – Determining Medical Necessity (October 2017)
Practice Management Tips and Tools – “We Cannot Tell You How to Bill for That!” (October 2017)
Who Will be a Target for Probe and Educate? (September 2017)
Medicare ID Numbers: Out with the Old and In with the New! (September 2017)
Today’s Anesthesia Administrator - Today’s Challenges (August 2017)
What You Need to Know about “Incident To” (August 2017)
00530, 00534, or 00537: Which Code Should I Report? (July 2017)
Medicare Updates the Advance Beneficiary Notice (July 2017)
Participate in the 2017 ASA Conversion Factor Survey (June 2017)
Introducing the INSIGHTS + INNOVATIONS (i2) Conference (June 2017)
New Requirement – Reporting Services in Global Period (May 2017)
Keeping the ASA CROSSWALK Up To Date (May 2017)
Got Credentialing? (April 2017)
Part-Time, Job-Sharing Arrangements (April 2017)
CMS Changes Direction on Non-Face-to-Face Services (March 2017)
NGS and TEE: Your CAC Reps at Work! (March 2017)
New Players in the Payment Process (February 2017)
Resident Focused: Anesthesia Practice Types – Academic Anesthesiology (February 2017)
NCDs, LCDs and the MCD: How to Learn What CMS Does or Does Not Cover (January 2017)
For Your 2017 “To Do” List (January 2017)
Modifier Mania (November 2016)
Anesthesia Care Not Typically Required (November 2016)
Physicians and the Social Security Number Removal Initiative (October 2016)
Performance and Documentation of Imaging Guidance (October 2016)
Medical direction versus Medical Supervision (September 2016)
Does the Future Include Unwrapping the Global Surgical Package? (September 2016)
The Silent M in CMS packs a Big Punch (September 2016)
Avoiding Fraud and Abuse: Follow the Rules of the Road (August 2016)
Revalidation Notices: Do Not Ignore Them! (July 2016)
New ICD-10-CM Codes for Unintended Awareness Under General Anesthesia (July 2016)
Updates to the Recovery Audit Program (June 2016)
CMS Policy Change: Unused or Discarded Drugs (June 2016)
MACRA Implementation: Pulse Checks along the Way (May 2016)
Is Your ICD-10 Transition Still on Track? (May 2016)
Medicare Appeals Process (April 2016)
Advance Beneficiary Notices (April 2016)
CMS explains change to 2016 conversion factors (March 2016)
Medicare’s Final Rule: Reporting and Returning of Overpayments (February 2016)
The A B C’s [and D] of Medicare (February 2016)
National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual for Medicare Services (January 2016)
Coding for Nitrous Oxide for Labor Analgesia (January 2016)
2015 Timely Topics Word Puzzle (December 2015)
Are You Reporting Paravertebral Facet Joint Nerve Destruction Correctly? (December 2015)
Is Locum Tenens a 60-Day Fix for Your Practice? (November 2015)
Anesthesia Services and the OIG Work Plan (November 2015)
Commercial Payers and the ICD-10-CM Transition (September 2015)
ICD-10-CM: The Devil Is In the Details (September 2015)
CMS/AMA Guidance on ICD-10 Transition: What Does It Really Mean? (August 2015)
ICD-10-CM Testing- Don’t Skip This Essential Step (August 2015)
The Vital Signs of Your Practice: Days in Accounts Receivable (July 2015)
What can Certified Anesthesiologist Assistants Bring to Your Practice? (July 2015)
Have You Mapped Your Most Commonly Reported ICD-9-CM Codes to ICD-10-CM? (June 2015)
Ten Questions to Ask Yourself about ICD-10-CM (June 2015)
MACRA’s Impact Starts Before 2019 (May 2015)
OIG Issues Report on Incorrect Place of Service Codes on Claims (May 2015)
Modifications to Medicare’s MUE Program (April 2015)
What Anesthesiologists Need to Know about Reporting E&M or TCM (April 2015)
Tools and Resources: Staying Up-To-Date with the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (April 2015)
Medicare Provider Enrollment Programs: General Information and New Policies (April 2015)
How Do You See the Payment Landscape Post SGR? (March 2015)
ICD-10: Resources to Help in Your Transition (February 2015)
MACs and Facet Joint Injections (January 15, 2015)
CMS Announces Next Opportunity for ICD-10 Testing (December 2014)
ASC X12: Electronic Health Data Interchange Standards (December 2014)
ICD-10-CM Mapping Guide (December 2014)
The ABC’s of ABN (November 2014)
Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative (BPCI) (September 2014)
New Specific HCPCS Modifiers for Distinct Procedural Services (Modifier 59) (September 2014)
ICD‐10: Getting Ready for October 1, 2015 (August 2014)
Change is NOW: Learn More About Bundled Payments (August 2014)
Tools and Resources: Star Your Favorites (July 2014)
Exclusive Contracts and Closed/Open Departments (June 2014)
Reporting E&M Services and Anesthesia Services Together in the Pre‐operative Period (June 2014)
Tense about ICD-10? (June 2014)
Modifier 59 – Distinct Procedural Service (May 2014)
NGS Announces Prepayment Review for Specific Evaluation and Management Services (May 2014)
How Graceful is the Grace Period? (May 2014)
ICD-10-CM/PCS Delay: What Does It Mean To You? (April 2014)
The Company Model: Update on ASA Efforts to Address a Growing Problem (April 2014)
ICD-10 Readiness Testing (March 2014)
Medical Education Debt Management (March 2014)
Value-Based Payment Modifier (February 2014)
Integrating Anesthesiologist Assistants Into Your Practice (February 2014)
The Rulemaking Process and the Medicare Fee Schedule (January 2014)
Meaningful Use - Stage 2 Extension and Stage 3 Delay (December 2013)
RACS - Be in the Know (November 2013)
The Aging Anesthesiologist (November 2013)
Protected Health Information (October 2013)
ICD‐10‐CM/PCS: Thirteen Months and Counting….. (September 2013)
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Date of last update: December 21, 2023