Often, a physician will decide to perform a subchondroplasty during arthroscopic joint surgery to treat subchondral bone defects (microfractures). A version of this article was first published April 1 ...

• Sequence CPT codes on claims from highest to lowest RVUs for those other payors with which your facility is contracted who do not go by payment groupers or with whom your facility does not have a ...

Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...

In November, CMS finalized its Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System rule for 2026, which included the addition of 573 codes to the ASC Covered ...

CPT code 97039 has been in a state of constant flux in Florida and recent rulings have created greater change. First, one must understand what 97039 is and its history. According to the American ...

Criteria used by payers to determine how to code and support the use of various genomic profiling assays used in oncology. Bruce Feinberg, DO: Before we get to billing, whether it was 50, 150, or 500 ...

CPT codes for spine surgery may not always fit circumstances, and in some cases this prompts calls for reforms. One of those codes, CPT 62380 has the attention of some spine surgeons. The code, for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This article will focus on answers to questions related to the most common coding conundrums that spine surgeons ...

1. The 2026 CPT code set includes 418 total changes: 288 new codes, 84 deletions and 46 revisions. 2. Proprietary laboratory analyses and Category III CPT codes for emerging medical services each make ...

Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...

New procedural codes establish standardized pathway for clinical use of autologous heterogeneous skin construct across care ...