Archive for The Day of July 19th, 2006
Archive for the Day of July 19th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of July 19th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during July 19th, 2006.
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Using 92630
Aural Rehabilitation has caused a lot of confusion regarding how to do the medical billing correctly for the best reimbursements. Additionally, medical billing changes to Aural Rehab CPT codes have incorrectly caused many people to believe Aural Rehabilitation is not covered. Medicare actually assigned status code “I” to all new medical billing codes for auditory rehabilitation. These codes are 92630 and 92633. This means that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will not pay for auditory rehabilitation, only diagnostic audiology. However, this is only true if an audiologist performs the service and the medical billing. There are several other medical professionals that could possibly perform medical billing for aural …
Bigger Reimbursements for 92626
Medical billing in the speech, language, and hearing community is looking a little more lucrative. A transmittal released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a dramatic increase for reimbursement for the Current procedural terminology code 92626. Medical billing reimbursement will be nearly four times the old amount for this code. The current procedural terminology code 92626 (Evaluation of auditory rehabilitation status; first hour) was reimbursable at $22.07. This has changed. Medical billing now allows this code to be valued at $81.76. The relative value unit (RVU) used to calculate this medical billing reimbursement was 2.20. Originally the RVU was 0.55. The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) …
