{"id":188,"date":"2012-12-15T19:39:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T19:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbmafl.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2013-12-24T04:16:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T04:16:22","slug":"more-on-cpt-coding-changes-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbmafl.com\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"More on CPT Coding Changes 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my customers have been asking me about the new code changes and some of the answers are not quite clear.\u00a0 You see most of the insurance industry has latched on to the idea that the former code of 90806 translates to 90834.\u00a0 Well here is the problem with that 90834 is for 45 minutes.\u00a0 Most of my customers will provide 55-60 minutes of therapy.\u00a0\u00a0 They more or less did away with the 90808 and they say they replaced it with 90837.\u00a0 The other issue is that most of the insurance companies have latched on to this crosswalk and our fear is that they will not allow 90837 to be used routinely.\u00a0 In fact the reimbursement for 90834 by Florida Medicare standard is about 43.00 for 2013.\u00a0 This is extremely low.\u00a0 So I would suggest using 90837 sparingly as we venture into 2013 and watch for indicators that your pay sources will pay for this code as opposed to using the 90834.\u00a0\u00a0 Just a suggestion and an experiment as we venture into these uncharted territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of my customers have been asking me about the new code changes and some of the answers are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More on CPT Coding Changes 2013 - DB Management &amp; 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