Monthly Archives: January 2016
The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
The Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Meaningful Use Is Not Dead: It’s Reincarnated Last year, the MACRA bill was signed into law and in the pages of minutiae and legal language, it was outlined what would happen to meaningful use. Basically, the PQRS (Physician Quality Reporting System) and MU would be joined into one and give […]
Stay Up to Date! New 2016 CPT® Codes
Stay Up to Date! New 2016 CPT® Codes CPT® has made some changes to a few commonly billed X-ray codes. According to CPT®, this includes “a new family of six bundled codes (73501-73503, 73521-73523) for hip and pelvis radiologic examination.” Also included are thoracolumbar procedures with four new codes (72081-72084). Find out which codes were deleted here.