Why does health care cost so much in the U.S. part the infinity

I ' m on a lot of email lists thanks to my profession. A message I got today is below. I won ' t make you read it before I explain that one reason medical services cost so much in this godforsaken country is that providers have to hire people to with specialized training and pay them salaries to deal with this crap. Keep in mind that they see people with multiple different kinds of insurance and they need to keep track of what insurance the person has, what it will pay for, how much, and how, based on manuals containing hundreds of pages of similar dreck. And if they don ' t get it just right, they won ' t be paid. In civilized countries, this doesn ' t happen.When billing CPT code 99292 when you deliver critical care as a split (or shared) visit, an important correction has been made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services effective March 3, 2023.According to Section 30.6.12.5 in the Medicare Claims Processing (MCP) Manual (Chapter 12), CMS changed the number of cumulative total minutesfrom 75 to 104.This correction made to the MCP is effective 01/01/2023 and implemented 03/03/2023.  Please share this information to you coding, auditing and billing professionals.“…. To bill split (or shared) critical care services, the billing practitioner first reports CPT code 99291 and, if104 or more cumulative total minutes are spent providing critical care, the billing practitioner reports one or more units of CPT code 99292.Modifier -FS(split or shared E/M visit) mus...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs