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COVID-19 Vaccine Billing Codes for Alberta
To help accelerate the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, the Alberta Government has asked Alberta physicians to help in the vaccine campaign. As of March 15, 2021, two new vaccine billing codes have been added to...
AHS COVID-19 Alternate Relationship Plan (ARP)
We’ve been fielding a lot of questions about the AHS temporary Alternative Relationship Plan (ARP) related to COVID-19 redeployment work. AHS refers to these ARPs as “Temporary Optional Payment Structure for...
Alberta Medical Billing for Gender Affirming Surgery
My physicians experience rejections when billing for services and procedures related to gender affirming surgery. These surgeries are also referred to as gender confirming surgery or by an older term "gender...
AHS Age Related Billing Modifiers and Rejections
Alberta Health billing codes have restrictions and modifiers applied on a patient’s age or gender. These can cause unexpected rejections and offer opportunities for billing code optimizations. In this post,...
Alberta Health Z-Code Billing Rate Changes: “Out-of-office” codes
UPDATE: This post was original published in October 2020. On December 2, 2021 Alberta Health announced implementation of lower value z-codes would be further delayed until October 1, 2022 (MED 251). The...