I sat down with - virtually, anyway - with PCC's certified coding expert, Jan Blanchard, to discuss the impact of the 2021 changes to E&M charting and coding.
At PCC, we are monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on our clients' practices every day, all day (hence this late blog tonight). With the help of Tim and Alex at PCC, we're gathering customer data daily and looking for patterns that might steer us away ...
One of the benefits of working at PCC is that I am surrounded by nice and smart people (which, oddly, I never hear anyone else mentioning...weird). As a practical benefit, it means that if I don't know something, I usually just need to ask a question...
Hey, podcast fans! PCC's in-house Certified Pediatrics Coder and pediatric services consultant, Jan Blanchard, gave a great webinar last week and I thought I'd share it here. There's a PDF presentation attached to the episode you'll want to grab, too...
"As such, the Academy is profoundly disappointed that CMS not only continues to bundle these services (ie, status indicator “B”) but fails to publish the RUC-recommended values for these codes."
A few months ago, one of our pediatric practice management friends reached out to us to look for any good on-line resources for coding training for his pediatric clients. "Someone must have a WWW site with videos explaining how E&M coding works f...
I had a great time speaking to Drs. Bravo and Rogu on their growing podcast, The Pediatric Lounge, to discuss the state of independent pediatricians and the use of data in a pediatric practice. They are cranking out episodes (which is a good thing) and anyone who supports independent pediatricians should tune in to their effort. What they are doing takes a tremendous amount of work and their guest list is amazing (well, besides me). They turned our conversation into back-to-back episodes (32 and 33), "Independent Pediatric Practice 2022" and "Data Data Data and Managing a Pediatric Office." If you prefer video, you catch up on their YouTube channel.
