When coders hear the words "interventional radiology," many think of vascular procedures. However, interventional radiology encompasses additional, nonvascular procedures, such as nephrostomy tube placement and drainage of abscesses.
A former clinical director for Biscayne Milieu, a Miami-based mental health clinic, was sentenced to 100 months in prison for his participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $50 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare, announced the Assistant Attorney General, the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Florida, the FBI Miami Field Office, and the HHS-OIG Office of Investigations Miami Office in a press release.
The AMA added five new nuclear medicine codes to the radiology section of the 2013 CPT Manual, while revising and deleting a number of codes that represented outdated technology or were bundled into placement procedures.
