Year: 2018

2018 brings us new functional endoscopic sinus surgery codes (FESS) which bundle a total ethmoidectomy with both a frontal sinusotomy and a sphenoidotomy with and without removal of tissue.  2018 CPT® also provides a new bundled code for a frontal and sphenoid endoscopic balloon dilation. On initial review of these new codes and the instructions […]

This is evidenced by the Advisory Board’s 2017 revenue cycle benchmarks, which revealed the average 350-bed hospital saw denial write-offs increase from $3.9 million in 2011 to $7 million last year. To address the problem of increasing denials, healthcare organizations should focus on categorizing claims by type, as well as success of appeals, according to […]