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Conversion factor changes
Relative Value Unit (RVU) efficiency adjustment
Practice Expense changes
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AMA Symposium: Keep Counting Muscles to Correctly Report Chemodenervation in 2014
New guidelines also specify which services you can submit as bilateral.
Attendees at the American Medical Association’s (AMA) annual CPT® and RBRVS Symposium in November heard additional direction on how to correctly report new codes in 2014 from Gregory L. Barkley, MD, of the American Academy of Neurology. Here’s what you need to know about chemodenervation, evoked potentials, and more.
Watch Specifics in Chemodenervation Guidelines
“The big issue for 2014 is the changes to the chemodenervation codes and the associated parenthetical notes,” says Marvel J. Hammer, RN, CPC, CCS-P, ACS-PM, CHCO, owner of MJH Consulting...
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