There are\u00a0a few things to be aware of for the coming year. The Medicare deductible goes up to $147.00 in 2013 and the Psychiatric deduction for reimbursement is now 81.25% instead of 75% as in recent years.\u00a0 In addition the allowable for Medicare rates although the new published rates are down from last year will be reimbursed at 65% for service codes that begin with 908XX.\u00a0 Hopefully Congress will intervene and correct this reduction of fees like they have every year since about 2003.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The new evaluation code is 90791 for Initial Assessment w\/o Medication Management and 90792 for Initial Assessment with Medication Management.\u00a0\u00a0 There are also some add on codes that become very confusing about when and where to use them.\u00a0\u00a0 This I would state will iron themselves out in the new year.\u00a0 There are a number of places that are providing seminars etc… on the new coding and you would benefit your practice to read up and find out as much as you can.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
As always we are trying to stay ahead of the ever changing reimbursement environment.\u00a0 We invite your comments and suggestions of information you would like to see discussed here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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