Latest updates: Billing and coding

Avoid negative impacts to your claims by providing the medical records for the laboratory, pathology and other codes claims submissions indicated in this article. First Coast requests specific…

View our updated instructions.

Read this article to learn more about radioactive diagnostic agents for positron emission tomography of prostate-specific membrane antigen positive lesions in men with prostate cancer.

Surgeons append modifier 62 to claims indicating they were co-surgeons on the same patient during the same operative session. When billing a procedure with modifier 62, documentation of the medical…

Read these interim billing guidelines for long-term care hospitals.

The Code of Federal Regulations requires that, with certain exceptions, diagnostic tests covered under the Social Security Act and payable under the physician fee schedule must be performed under the…

The Code of Federal Regulations requires that, with certain exceptions, diagnostic tests covered under the Social Security Act and payable under the physician fee schedule must be performed under the…

Read the following article for the most common billing requirements for end-stage renal disease related services.

CMS entered into an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which allows First Coast to recover duplicate payments for the same services made to providers by both Medicare and the VA…

CMS entered into an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which allows First Coast to recover duplicate payments for the same services made to providers by both Medicare and the VA…