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The 2026 Medicaid ABA rate-cut wave.
Indiana, North Carolina, and Vermont are cutting Medicaid ABA rates and dosing in 2026. What the bellwether states signal, and how to defend revenue.
Read →The 90-day credentialing clock: where the delays actually hide.
Payer credentialing runs 60 to 120 days. See the stage-by-stage clock, the six places delays actually hide, and the front-end controls that compress…
Read →ABA clinical documentation that survives payer audits.
An ABA session note field guide: the six elements every note needs, documentation rules per CPT 97151 to 97158, and five mistakes that draw takebacks.
Read →The real ABA compliance calendar: every 2026-2027 deadline in one table.
Eight real ABA compliance deadlines, Aug 2026 to Dec 2027: Indiana accreditation, MassHealth, BACB 2027 standards, Illinois divestiture, the CPT…
Read →Why ABA Concurrent-Billing Denials Spike When 97155 and 97153 Overlap
Why ABA concurrent-billing denials spike when 97155 supervision and 97153 direct therapy overlap on the clock, and how to sequence documentation so…
Read →The 2027 ABA CPT overhaul: a billing team's 5-month checklist.
Six new adaptive behavior codes, revisions to 97151-97158, and 0362T/0373T deleted Jan 1, 2027. The 5-month prep checklist ABA billing teams need.
Read →ABA CPT codes: the reference that shows how each code denies.
The complete ABA CPT code reference: 97151 to 97158 plus 0362T and 0373T, who renders each, unit rules, and how every code denies, with prevention…
Read →Direct vs indirect ABA services: what billing teams must know.
A billing team field guide to ABA service categories: direct versus indirect versus assessment, the CPT crosswalk, supervision ratios, and telehealth.
Read →ABA fraud: what every parent should know in 2026.
A plain-English parent guide to ABA billing fraud: common patterns, red flags on your EOB, your right to records, and five questions to ask a…
Read →ABA therapy billing in Texas: Medicaid, commercial, and BCBA credentialing, explained.
A guide to ABA therapy billing in Texas: STAR and STAR Kids managed care, commercial payer rules, BCBA credentialing timelines, and authorizations.
Read →How autonomous platforms hit 99 percent coding accuracy.
Accuracy is not a marketing claim, it is a measurable distribution. We open the hood on how leading autonomous platforms achieve consistent accuracy.
Read →AHCCCS behavioral health billing: the working guide.
AHCCCS behavioral health billing explained: the ACC and FFS plan landscape, BH and SUD code families, ASAM crosswalk, denial patterns, and…
Read →5 AHCCCS SUD billing mistakes that trigger denials.
Arizona Medicaid SUD billing: the five mistakes that trigger AHCCCS denials, from per-diem double-billing to ASAM gaps, and the fix for each one.
Read →Autonomous coding meets value based care.
Value based care lives on accurate documentation, complete capture, and timely submission. Three things autonomous coding does well.
Read →AI coding implementation: the 90-day playbook.
A 90-day implementation playbook for AI medical coding: week-by-week timeline, required data, role-based training, metrics, and five mistakes to…
Read →Top 12 features to look for in 2026 AI coding platforms.
A buyer checklist for AI medical coding platforms in 2026: V28 currency, audit trail, EHR integration, coder-in-loop review, and RADV defensibility.
Read →How startups are disrupting medical coding.
A wave of well funded startups is reshaping medical coding faster than legacy vendors can adapt. Here is the landscape and where the real work…
Read →ASAM levels of care to AHCCCS billing codes.
ASAM levels of care crosswalked to AHCCCS billing codes: per-diem rules, POS codes, and the documentation that stops SUD medical-necessity denials.
Read →The second line is where ASC money quietly leaks.
How the ASC 50% multiple-procedure reduction and modifiers 50, 51, 59, 73, and 74 change the actual paid amount on a stacked claim. Worked…
Read →Six years. One team. One unforgettable night.
A look inside the ASP 6th Annual Celebration. Six years of ASP-RCM, one team across three delivery hubs.
Read →Stop dialing payers. Ask them in EDI.
See how voice automation over the X12 276/277 claim-status transaction collapses a mid-size billing office's weekly follow-up call queue without…
Read →The rise of autonomous medical coding: is manual coding becoming obsolete?
Autonomous medical coding is changing the coder role, not ending it. What the technology actually does, where it breaks, and how to deploy it well.
Read →Autonomous coding vs traditional. The real 12-month ROI math.
A line-by-line 12-month ROI comparison of human versus autonomous AI coding: cost per code, coder hours, error rate, and hidden costs at three…
Read →Four things stack against a behavioral health claim
Behavioral health denies far more than medical and most denials never get resubmitted. See the 6-station claim relay, EAP session-cap discipline, and…
Read →Autonomous coding in behavioral health.
Behavioral health and ABA documentation has unique gaps. Group sessions, time based units, narrative notes, and indirect time.
Read →Moved: ABA Therapy Billing Services
Read →Can AI replace medical coders? The honest 2026 answer.
A straight answer on whether AI can replace medical coders in 2026. The 92, 78, and 65 percent autonomous-coding spectrum. The coder-in-loop…
Read →Stop falling out of network on a missed 120-day attestation.
How growing groups automate the CAQH ProView 120-day re-attestation, delegated roster submission, and NCQA delegation audit as one layered cycle so…
Read →CARC codes 2026. The complete denial reason reference.
A working CARC code reference for 2026: the top 30 claim adjustment reason codes with payer concentration, prevention steps, and overturn likelihood.
Read →Stack RPM, RTM and CCM in the same month without voiding the claim
A cardiology billing guide to stacking RPM, RTM and CCM in the same month under the CMS CY2026 Physician Fee Schedule. See which codes concurrency…
Read →The CFO business case for autonomous coding.
If you are the CFO weighing autonomous coding, this is the business case in plain numbers. Three line items move. Cost per chart, denial recovery,…
Read →The AT modifier is not optional. But it is only as strong as your note.
Medicare pays chiropractic CMT codes 98940-98942 only when the AT modifier is backed by documented active treatment. Here is the pre-submission…
Read →Autonomous coding and the future of audit risk.
Audit risk is the silent cost of manual coding. Inconsistent code selection, missing documentation, and incomplete trails compound.
Read →A voice agent can collect patient balances. It just cannot sound like a debt collector.
What a voice agent may and may not say when collecting patient responsibility, threaded through the No Surprises Act, the FDCPA, the TCPA, and…
Read →Understanding new copayment rules and their impact on healthcare practices.
When you must collect copays, when waivers are allowed, and the inducement rules that get providers in trouble. With state-by-state notes.
Read →CorePulse on real ortho ASC charts, measured by code type
A production-run accuracy benchmark of CorePulse AI coding on real ambulatory surgery ortho charts, broken out by code type, honest about where…
Read →What Moved on the CY2026 ASC Covered-Procedures List, and What It Does to Your Facility Fee
A line-by-line before and after of the CY2026 ASC Covered Procedures List additions, IPO phase-out, and device-intensive offset, and exactly how each…
Read →The claim is not dental. It is medical, and coded wrong.
A side-by-side field guide that pairs medically necessary dental services with their CPT equivalents, so trauma, biopsy, and sleep-appliance cases…
Read →DNFB: the silent cash trap on your balance sheet.
DNFB is completed care stuck before the claim drops, hiding as unbilled AR and starving hospital cash.
Read →EHR integration for autonomous coding.
Integration is where most coding platform deployments slow down. We walk through how leading platforms connect to Epic, Cerner, Athena,…
Read →End-to-end RCM cycle: eligibility through reconciliation.
The eight stages of the revenue cycle, the typical revenue leak at each stage, where AI compresses the cycle, and how the leaks compound across the…
Read →From ICD to AI. The evolution of medical coding.
Medical coding has gone through five eras since the 1970s. Each shift in technology forced a shift in workforce, workflow, and revenue cycle.
Read →Expirables That Never Lapse: License, DEA and Board With Primary-Source Verification
A standing checklist of every credentialing expirable that must be primary-source verified and re-verified, mapped to NCQA, Joint Commission, DEA and…
Read →Two code families see the same patient. Only one survives the audit.
A side-by-side matrix comparing CPT eye codes 92002-92014 against office E/M on documentation demands and frequency limits, so every ophthalmology…
Read →The eleven codes the LCDs actually police
The 2026 MAC LCD frequency limits for facet joint (64490-64495) and epidural steroid injections (62321-62327), laid out as a per-region, per-year…
Read →Autonomous medical coding in the U.S. What 2027 will look like.
Autonomous coding adoption in the United States crossed 50 percent of large hospitals in 2026. By 2027, the question shifts from whether to how fast.
Read →Close chronic-condition recapture gaps the chart can defend
How HCC recapture suspect analytics finds the chronic conditions your charts already support, closes real gaps under CMS-HCC V28, and stops short of…
Read →HCC V28 is fully phased in for 2026. Here is what it does to your RAF.
CY2026 completes the 3-year CMS-HCC V28 phase-in at 100 percent. Use our V24-vs-V28 RAF calculator to see which conditions lost weight and where…
Read →Hidden revenue leaks in healthcare: how automation is transforming revenue cycle performance.
Twelve places revenue quietly leaks out of a healthcare RCM operation, underpayments, modifier 25 audit, write-off discipline, contract reload, and…
Read →The 2026 payment cut is not a headline. It is a number on every episode.
The CY2026 Home Health PPS final rule turns your 30-day base rate into an operating number. Here is how the PDGM behavioral adjustment and LUPA visit…
Read →HOPE replaces HIS. Your assessment calendar is now a billing control.
On October 1, 2025 the HOPE instrument replaced the Hospice Item Set. Here is the dated timeline of every HOPE assessment point across an admission,…
Read →Common pitfalls in hospital revenue cycle management solutions.
The recurring pitfalls in hospital revenue cycle: charge capture audit, contract underpayments, transfer DRG, and the 3-day window.
Read →An NCCI edit is a question, not a verdict.
How CorePulse reads CMS NCCI PTP edits and MUEs, treating a CCMI of 1 as a documentation gate rather than a green light for modifiers 59 and…
Read →How to choose an RCM vendor: the 12-question checklist.
Twelve questions to ask before signing an RCM vendor: SLA terms, technology, HIPAA controls, EHR integration, exit terms, and senior accountability.
Read →In-house vs outsourced medical billing: the honest 2026 math.
Fully-loaded cost analysis, coverage gap math, performance comparison, and the specific scenarios where in-house wins and where outsourced wins.
Read →Indiana ABA agencies: your accreditation clock is already running.
Indiana IHCP bulletin BT202646 requires ABA group accreditation by October 1, 2027 via ACQ or BHCOE. The deadlines, the risk, and how to respond.
Read →The drug you throw away is still revenue, if you tag it right.
How single-dose-vial wastage reporting under modifier JW and the mandatory JZ zero-wastage attestation drive both reimbursement and audit exposure in…
Read →The dollars you lose in a migration are the ones you already earned.
A legacy AR import that drops your 835 remit history quietly forfeits appeals that were still in the timely-filing window. Here is how to migrate the…
Read →Medicare 2026 RCM changes: what providers need to know.
The 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, V28 risk adjustment, MA enrollment shifts, telehealth permanence, and Part B threshold updates.
Read →Medicare now pays MFTs and mental health counselors. Here is how to actually get paid.
Marriage-and-family therapists and mental health counselors can bill Medicare directly in 2026. An operator walkthrough of enrollment, the 75% rate,…
Read →Autonomous coding across multi specialty groups.
Multi specialty practices are the hardest deployment for autonomous coding. Different documentation styles, different coder pools, different payer…
Read →Why NLP is the engine of autonomous medical coding.
Behind every autonomous coding platform is a domain trained natural language model that reads clinical notes the way a senior coder does.
Read →Global OB package or itemize? The transferred-care decision that changes your whole claim.
When a pregnancy patient transfers care mid-course, the global OB package quietly overpays or underpays you. Here is exactly when to bill 59400,…
Read →The post-op encounter is billable. The modifier is what proves it.
A visual decision path that routes every orthopedic post-op encounter to the right global-period modifier (24, 25, 57, 58, 78, 79) under 2026 CMS…
Read →The OTA CO Modifier and the 2026 Therapy Threshold: What Actually Hits Your Remit
When an occupational therapy assistant delivers care, the CO modifier pays at 85 percent. See the real dollar difference and where the 2026 KX…
Read →Cutting Payer Enrollment Lag With Parallel PECOS and CAQH Tracking
Cut payer enrollment credentialing turnaround by running PECOS, CAQH ProView, and commercial payer tracks in parallel. A provider timeline showing…
Read →Three delivery modes. One brand. Three completely different sets of payer physics.
The CPT rulebook behind pediatric therapy revenue across teletherapy, in-home, and ABA. Speech codes, the 8-minute rule, habilitative modifiers,…
Read →DIR reform moved the money to the counter. 340B and NADAC decide who keeps it.
After Medicare Part D DIR reform moved price concessions to the point of sale, 340B modifiers JG and TB and NADAC-based state Medicaid rates now land…
Read →Autonomous coding and physician satisfaction.
Physicians do not want to think about coding. With autonomous platforms, they no longer have to. Less query volume, fewer documentation interruptions.
Read →Prior authorization in 2026: what is changing.
A 2026 field guide to prior authorization: the CMS Gold Card program, FHIR API rollouts, the service codes most affected, and TAT compression that…
Read →The PTA CQ Modifier and Plan-of-Care Recert Clock in 2026 Physical Therapy
A 2026 timeline for physical therapy billing that puts the CQ 15 percent PTA reduction, the KX threshold, and the 90-day plan-of-care recert deadline…
Read →TC, 26 and MPPR: the splits that decide what you actually collect
How the professional/technical split and the CY2026 imaging MPPR reduce the second and subsequent imaging services on the same session, with an…
Read →The 8 RCM challenges defining 2026.
The eight revenue cycle challenges defining 2026: payer policy churn, denials, credentialing turnaround, workforce shortage, and AI adoption.
Read →Real time coding. Cutting turnaround from days to hours.
Coding turnaround used to be measured in days. With autonomous platforms, it is measured in hours, and on inpatient charts, in minutes.
Read →How autonomous coding platforms are reducing claim denials by 70%.
The 70 percent denial-reduction figure has a specific origin. Here is the mechanism behind autonomous coding, where it works, and where it does not.
Read →Why claim denials are rising in 2026. The four real causes.
Claim denials are rising at the fastest rate in a decade. The four real causes, and the five actions revenue cycle leaders should take this quarter.
Read →One skin visit, three procedures, and the modifier that either earns money or triggers an audit
Follow one dermatology encounter through NCCI bundling to see exactly where the Mohs biopsy modifier 25 and modifier 59 are required, and where…
Read →Score the AR worklist by recovery probability, not just age.
See how ranking accounts by predicted recoverability from CARC and RARC denial patterns beats oldest-first triage, and where a denial reason means…
Read →One clinic, two rulebooks. Bill each line the way CMS wrote it.
How a combined clinic bills correctly in 2026: SLP shares the PT KX modifier threshold, while audiology bills direct access with the AB modifier. CMS…
Read →PDPM, Consolidated Billing, and the FY2026 SNF Rule, Working as One System
A layered explainer of how PDPM case-mix, consolidated billing exclusions, and the FY2026 SNF PPS final rule work together, so your SNF knows exactly…
Read →Who Gets Billing Credit When a Physician and an APP Share the Visit
Who gets billing credit when a physician and an APP share a visit under the CMS CY2026 Physician Fee Schedule. A setting-by-setting explainer of the…
Read →Surviving RADV Extrapolation: MEAT Documentation That Holds
A RADV audit HCC documentation MEAT playbook: why a diagnosis without Monitor, Evaluate, Assess or Treat evidence collapses under extrapolated…
Read →Never miss a filing or appeal deadline across every payer.
Stop letting claims age out silently. See how RecoveAR stacks every payer's timely filing and appeal clocks on one live per-claim countdown, from the…
Read →The billing fork that decides whether an urgent care visit gets paid in full.
Some payers force the S9083 global case rate, others pay per-visit E/M plus S9088, and the wrong place of service silently underpays every urgent…
Read →Two urology leaks hide in plain sight: cystoscopy bundling and buy-and-bill units.
The two biggest urology revenue leaks explained: cystoscopy-with-biopsy bundling under NCCI PTP edits (CPT 52000-52356) and mis-billed buy-and-bill…
Read →V28 in 2026: the RAF points most groups are still leaving on the table.
CMS-HCC V28 is fully phased in for 2026. See where RAF leaks out: un-recaptured chronic HCCs, unaddressed suspects, and thin MEAT documentation.
Read →The same well-child visit is coded differently across state lines.
The same pediatric well-child visit is coded differently across Medicaid programs. A state-grid view of VFC vaccine administration reporting and…
Read →A voice agent that quotes the benefit your claim will actually collect
A field-by-field checklist of what an AI voice agent must confirm on a benefits call and how VoiceIQ reconciles every spoken quote against the X12…
Read →Why GCR lies to your FQHC board.
Gross Collection Rate misreads FQHC performance because PPS fixes the rate. Report Net Collection Rate by payer class, wrap completeness, and Table 9.
Read →The descriptor said lumbar. The code said cervical. CorePulse caught it.
How CorePulse pairs a deterministic anatomy check with a voted model readback to stop a lumbar chart from being coded with a cervical CPT, without…
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