Sep 15, 2022
Employer Group waiver plan Employer Group Waiver Plans (EGWPs) are well-positioned solutions to help you keep costs down and offer valuable retiree benefits. An EGWP has financial benefits that significantly exceed current RDS payments. You should consider an EGWP if...
Aug 20, 2022
CPT Code Description 47562 Laparoscopy, surgical; cholecystectomy – Average fee amount – $600 – $750 47563 – Laparoscopy, surgical; cholecystectomy with cholangiography 47564 – Laparoscopy, surgical; cholecystectomy with exploration of common duct – Average fee amount...
Jul 30, 2022
CREDENTIALING PROCESS FOR NEW PHYSICIANS Overview New physicians/providers must credential themselves, i.e., enroll and attest with the Payer’s network and authorized to provide services to patients who are members of the Payer’s plans. The credentialing process...
Jul 20, 2022
Source of Delays in the Credentialing Process: The credentialing process may get further delayed due to few primary causes. They are as follows: Poor response or planning: Many times the response from new physicians or even credentialed physicians for our requests of...
Jun 5, 2022
Reimbursement Guidelines Time Span Codes UnitedHealthcare will reimburse a CPT or HCPCS Level II code that specifies a time period for which it should be reported (e.g., weekly, monthly), once during that time period. The time period is based on sourcing from the AMA...
May 8, 2022
CPT Code Description 93922 Limited bilateral noninvasive physiologic studies of upper or lower extremity arteries, (e.g. for lower extremity: ankle/brachial indices at distal posterior tibial and anterior tibial/dorsalis pedis arteries plus bidirectional, Doppler...
Apr 10, 2022
Essential (primary) hypertension: I10 In ICD-9, essential hypertension was coded using 401.0 (malignant), 401.1 (benign), or 401.9 (unspecified). ICD-10 uses only a single code for individuals who meet criteria for hypertension and do not have comorbid heart or kidney...
