Urology Coding and Reimbursement Podcast
The Urology Coding and Reimbursement Podcast is for Urologists and urology practice staff: Administrators, APPs, Billers and Coders. We help urologists and staff achieve peak economic and practice efficiency so there is time and energy to focus on patient care and a happy life. Your cohosts, Mark, Scott and Dr. Ray Painter discuss urology coding and share best practices for the urology office. We will answer submitted urology coding questions so that you can learn the concepts and apply in your practice. Learn the best practices: urology coding, revenue cycle management, scheduling, collections, patient information collection, pre-authorization, prior approval, charge capture, office communications, claim entry review, appeals, audits and billing, that we have tested and proven so you can adapt and incorporate.
Urology Coding and Reimbursement Podcast
UCR 017: 2021 CMS Proposed Rules and how they impact the Urology Practices
•
Mark Painter, Scott Painter and Dr. Ray Painter
•
Episode 17
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
Mark outlines the proposed rule and the 8 items that will have the most impact on the Urology practice.
- Final rule posting late this year
- Conversion factor decreasing by 10.6%
- E&M 2021 changes being adopted and will include increased RVUs for the E&M codes
- RVUs for non-facility codes increasing enough to offset conversion factor decrease
- RVUs for facility procedures are all decreasing
- ASC payments are set to increase
- MIPs has a couple of changes but they are not major changes to the current program
- Telehealth is going to continue with the same rules during the Public Health Emergency. Once the PHE is over then covered codes will change and be separated into 3 categories of covered codes