7 / 1 / 2026
By Christopher Fete & Jake Muth
Article originally featured in McDermott Will & Schulte‘s Health Highlights. Introduction Healthcare consumers increasingly expect the same convenience, accessibility, and personalization they experience in many other aspects of their daily...
6 / 27 / 2024
By Lori Carlin & Alysia Delozier
Before we discuss documentation guidelines, let’s define psychotherapy. Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, is a type of therapy during which the provider uses a series of techniques to...
6 / 25 / 2024
By Lori Carlin & Angie Wood
If you haven’t already, you should utilize the Medicare Preventive Services education tool from The Medicare Learning Network! Not only does it lay out all of Medicare’s preventive services in...
6 / 13 / 2024
By Lori Carlin & Angie Wood
Since 2020, telehealth services have seen many changes, but there were some significant changes to telehealth in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) 2024 Physician Fee Schedule Final...
5 / 23 / 2024
By Ann Brandt
Pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology companies (collectively life sciences companies or “LSCs”) utilize outside ‘experts’ (“Healthcare Professionals” and “Key Opinion Leaders”, collectively “HCPs/KOLs”) to provide a wide variety of...
4 / 25 / 2024
By Kelly Conroy, Daniela Yusufbekova & Zach Maher
Every primary care physician (PCP) in the United States should be integrated into an accountable care model. The primary objective of accountable care models is to provide all participating healthcare...
4 / 17 / 2024
By Lori Carlin & Angie Wood
If you have questions about how to properly bill Medicare for bilateral procedures, the National Correct Coding Initiative (“NCCI”) policy manual has your answers. Starting on page 30 of chapter...
3 / 21 / 2024
By Kristina Finley, CPC
Introduction March is Kidney Awareness Month, and Pinnacle wants to share updates regarding the new conversion from v24 to v28. What better way to celebrate than to brush up...
3 / 19 / 2024
By Lori Carlin & Angie Wood
In the introduction, we discussed the three (3) edit types that make up the National Correct Coding Initiative (“NCCI”). Probably the most familiar of those edits are the procedure to...
3 / 5 / 2024
By Mike Vandaveer
Healthcare Real Estate Transactions Jackson Health Confirms $90 Million Expansion. Jackson Health System has selected Skanska USA as the contractor to complete a $90 million renovation and expansion project that...
