Sandy Coffta

Economics
Update on interventional radiology coding and billing
Proper coding of physician services is essential to efficient billing and the optimization of reimbursement from payors, including commercial and governmental entities. The current procedural terminology codes issued by the American Medical Association to describe physician procedures are supposed to be recognized as standards, but in practice they are not accepted equally by all payors.
June 16, 2019
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Practice Management
How radiologists can avoid appropriate use penalties
Is your radiology practice ready for new Medicare requirements on appropriate use and clinical decision support? Or more accurately, are your referring physicians ready? Well they better be, or else your practice could be paying the price. Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners explains.
June 9, 2019
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Economics
Benchmarking can help radiology practices evaluate productivity
It's natural to want to compare one's performance against others, but some comparisons are inherently problematic -- especially when using relative value units. Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners explores the issues and benefits of measuring and monitoring radiologist productivity.
May 27, 2019
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Regulatory
The value of PICC for interventional radiologists
Interventional radiologists are often called to perform peripherally inserted central venous catheter (PICC) procedures. In this new article, Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners discusses changes to how PICC procedures are reimbursed and their financial implications.
April 22, 2019
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Economics
Understanding changes in 2019 final Medicare fee schedule
Which radiology procedures were winners and which ones were losers in the final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for 2019? Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners unpacks these changes to the MPFS in this new article.
March 7, 2019
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Medicare's AUC/CDS mandate will begin next year
Starting January 1, 2020, your referring physicians will be required to use appropriate use criteria (AUC) and clinical decision support (CDS) when ordering imaging exams for Medicare patients. And if they don't, guess who doesn't get paid for the images you read? You. Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners explains.
January 29, 2019
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Economics
Why credit card security is important for medical practices
Is your radiology practice doing all it can to safeguard patient information when accepting debit or credit card payments? In a new column, Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners suggests some steps you can take to make sure financial data from your patients is secure.
December 16, 2018
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Economics
Understanding the value of RVUs in radiology
What exactly are relative value units (RVUs), and how do they affect payment for radiology services? In this new article, Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners analyzes RVUs and explains how well they work for measuring physician productivity.
October 29, 2018
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Practice Management
How patient consumerism affects today's radiology practice
Consumerism in the world of healthcare means that patients are taking a more active interest in the cost and quality of the services they receive. In this column, Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners examines how this trend affects today's radiology practice.
July 15, 2018
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Economics
Billing for off-campus hospital outpatient departments
The Medicare rules for billing services performed in off-campus hospital outpatient departments changed with the passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, with the result that ownership of imaging centers by hospitals is becoming less attractive than it once was. Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners reviews the changes.
July 4, 2018
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