If you use Newcrop to ePrescribe controlled substances, you must create a pin before Wednesday March 10th 9pm CST. The attached shows how. Please reach out to help@claimpower.org if you have questions Click here for instructions on how to update your EPCS pin.
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New COVID-19 ICD-10 Codes
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the implementation of six new ICD-10-CM codes to identify conditions related to novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The new codes are: J12.82, Pneumonia due to COVID-19 Pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 M35.81, multisystem inflammatory syndrome Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children Pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome M35.89, other specified systemic involvement… Continue Reading
5 Things to Know About 2021’s E&M Changes
2021 brings huge updates to the E&M Guidelines for office visits. Here are the most important things to know: These changes only apply to office visits, the guidelines for all other places of service remain unchanged. These changes apply to all payors. The level of Medical Decision Making should guide the level of service billed…. Continue Reading
End-of-Year Client Survey
As of today, Claimpower’s first annual end-of-year survey is open and accepting your responses. The survey should take you no longer than 5 minutes, and will aid us greatly in our mission to provide you with the best service. We ask that you please complete this survey by Saturday, December 12th. Also, please share this… Continue Reading
Influenza Vaccine 2020-2021 – Tell Us What You’re Using
Dear Doctor, Please let the Billing Office know which FLU SHOT you will use for the year 2020-2021, If you can also provide the NDC number it will be beneficial. Email this info to help@claimpower.org.
ePrescribe Issues
We’ve received several reports of Chrome ePrescribe issues. We received this fix from NewCrop: 1) In the chrome browser, search chrome://flags 2) In the Search flags field, type, “Samesite” 3) Select Disabled from the dropdown options for all three of these Samesite options. 4)… Continue Reading
Telehealth Updates
More Pay Medicare released another round of telehealth updates last week. The good news: they’re increasing pay! The reimbursement for the telephone-only 99441 – 99443 CPT codes increased from $14-$41 to $46-$110. This update is retroactive to March 1st, 2020. These codes represent 5-10 minutes, 11-20 minutes, and 21-30 minutes respectively. The description of this… Continue Reading
Coverage for Uninsured COVID-19 Patients
The CARES Act created a fund to cover uninsured COVID-19 patients. It is, “subject to availability.” Claims can be submitted to this fund starting on May 6th, 2020. Our intent is for your claims to be the first submitted. We need your help to make this happen. The program requires: You to be registered through… Continue Reading
Kafkaesque Provider Relief Fund Updates
Kafkaesque: “having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality. e.g. Kafkaesque bureaucratic delays.” We have a few updates on the Provider Relief Fund to share: $20,000,000,000 Disbursement to Start Tomorrow In contrast to the first 30 billion dollars, which was split up based on your share of Medicare billing, the split for this next 20… Continue Reading
New Document Upload Tool
We released a new document upload tool. Our intent was to gradually roll it out and gently sunset our old EMR document upload tool. Then, a windows update broke the old application. So… our timeline got expedited. Oh, life! The new tool is much more flexible and lightweight than the old one. It pairs with… Continue Reading