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    • Meet the Team
    • Jay McVean, Executive Director
    • Angelia Cain, CCA, Surgery
    • Barbara Montemayor, CCA, Pedi-Surgery & Anesthesia
    • Betty Babin, BCPM, Internal Medicine
    • Brandi Leonard, CCA, Family Medicine
    • Caroline Wolbrecht, CEPM
    • Chioma Ekpe-Hunter, CCA, Internal Medicine
    • Freda Washington, RCM, DII
    • Jatoi Johnson, SCS
    • Kourtnie Washington, AA
    • Maria Vazquez, CCA – Neurology, Neurosurgery, and PM&R
    • Padmavathi Annaldasula, SCCA, Emergency Medicine
    • Ronna Foster, SCCA – ORL, EP, and AHF
    • Stephanie Salazar, CCA, Orthopedics
    • Te’Ann Parker, CCA, Pediatrics
    • Happy Holidays from MSHBC!
  • Coding Compliance
    • Introducing – The AI Scribe
    • CMS – Claims Core Program
    • Late Entry, Addendum, Amendment, or Attestation?
    • Target Probe and Educate (TPE)
    • Coding Compliance Overview
    • 2026 CMS OPPS Proposed Rule
    • 2025 Coding Compliance Changes
    • G0545 – The Other Inherent Complexity Code
    • Compliance Resource Tools
    • Common Compliance Links
    • FREE CEU/CME Opportunities
    • Locum Tenens – Has a New Name
    • Why is “Pajama Time” still a thing?
    • Owe CMS a refund?
    • Understanding Your Taxonomy Designation
  • Behavioral Health
    • Psychiatry Services
    • Psychotherapy is on Medicare’s Radar
    • Shared Medical Appointment: Part 1 – Physician/APP Role
    • Shared Medical Appointment: Part 2 – Behavioral Health Clinician Role
    • Shared Medical Appointment: Part 3 – Registered Dietician
  • Teaching Physician Rules – The Basics
    • Teaching Physician Attestations – E/M
    • Teaching Physician Attestations – Primary Care Exception
    • Teaching Physician Attestations – Procedures
    • Students – Still in Training
  • Advance Practice Non-Physician Providers (APNP)
    • Incident-to: Auxiliary Staff vs. NPQPs
    • “Incident to” – Still on the OIG radar
    • SA Modifier – Are you using it?
    • “Incident-to” Billing Basics
    • Shared/Split Visits: 2024 Rules
    • Shared Visits – Still Puzzled?
  • E/M Overview
    • Why Clear Clinical Notes Matter (and Why Longer Isn’t Better)
    • Discharge and Pronouncement of Death
    • Calculating Time
    • Interprofessional Consultation Coding
    • Team Documentation
    • E/M: Documenting Time in 2023
    • E/M + Procedure = Modifier -25
    • Inherent Complexity Code – G2211
    • Newborn Care Services 101
    • Critical Care 101
    • 2023: Home or Residence Services
    • Medicare Wellness Exams
    • Pre-Procedural Examinations – Z01.818
    • 2023 Inpatient E/M Changes
    • CMS FY 2023 Final Rule Changes – Prolonged Services
    • Prolonged Services
    • Initial Inpatient or Observation Care Services – CPT
    • Initial Inpatient or Observation Care Services – Medicare
    • Patient is not Inpatient or Observation Status
    • SDoH – Social Determinants of Health
    • MTM – Medication Therapy Management
    • Medical Record Documentation Checklists
    • E/M: Medical Decision Making 101
    • High Medical Decision Making – Part One
    • High Medical Decision Making: Part Two – Data
    • MDM: Treatment Risk – Monitoring for Toxicity
    • High Medical Decision Making: Part Three – Risk
  • Care Management Services Overview
    • Series Part I: Chronic Care Management Services
    • Series Part II: Complex Chronic Care Management Services
    • Series Part III: Principal Care Management Basics
    • Series Part IV: Transitional Care Management
    • Series Part V: Advanced Primary Care Management (APCM)
    • Series Part VI: Chronic Pain Management Services
  • Hierarchical Condition Category Coding
    • ‘Personal History Of’
    • Understanding Diagnosis Fishing
    • Hierarchical Condition Category Coding Overview
    • The Problem List Problem
    • MSHBC Quick Tips!
  • Digital Health Services
    • Telemedicine and Digital Services
    • Interprofessional Consultation
    • (MNT) Medical Nutrition Therapy
    • Remote Therapeutic Monitoring (RTM)
    • E-Visits – What you need to know!
    • Telemedicine – Back to Pre-COVID Requirements
    • Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM)
    • Telemedicine – What’s Next?
    • Telehealth – First Quarter (2025) Update
  • Specialty Coding Compliance
    • Texas Medicare WISeR Program: What Providers Need to Know
    • Allergy and Immunology 101
    • 95165 – Antigen Mixing Dose Calculation
    • Miscarriage – (Spontaneous) Pregnancy Loss
    • Global Surgery Package – Our Future?
    • Closed Fracture Care with Manipulation
    • Injection Series: Part One – Hyaluronic Acid (HA)
    • Injection Series: Part Two – Facet Joints (Paravertebral)
    • Injection Series: Part Three – Trigger Points
    • Injection Series: Part IV – (ESI) Epidural Steroidal Injection
    • Colonoscopy Coding for Medicare
    • Moderate (Conscious) Sedation
    • Assistant-at-Surgery
    • Complying with Eye Care Guidelines
    • ASC Series: Part 1 – The Basics
    • CGT (Cell and Gene Therapy) Program – Sickle Cell
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    • MSHBC Quick Tips!
    • Understanding Diagnosis Fishing

MSHBC Quick Tips!

Super Doc!

This page is a compilation of compliance quick tips for UTH-Houston providers and coding compliance professionals. These are internal links. If you would like a copy of one of our Compliance Quick Tips, please contact [email protected].

Compliance Quick Tips!

“Incident-to” E/M Visits (external link)

Shared/Split (ACP) E/M Visits (external link)

Teaching Physician Attestations (E/M) (external link)

Diagnosis Quick Tips!

Altered Mental Status (external link)

Anemia (external link)

Chronic Renal Failure (external link)

Condition Status Codes (external link)

Dementia (external link)

Diabetes Mellitus (external link)

GI Bleed (external link)

Malnutrition (external link)

Major Depressive Disorder (external link)

Neoplasm (Breast) (external link)

POA (Present on Admission) (external link)

Seizures (external link)

Procedure Quick Tips!

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring (external link)

AMA SMBP CPT® coding sheet (external link)

Annual Wellness Visits (external link)

Basics of Telehealth (external link)

Debridement (external link)

Prostate Screening (external link)

Other Quick Tips!

Risk Adjustment 101 (external link)

 

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