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Description: Our in-depth articles cover coding, billing, compliance, reimbursement, legal issues, career advancement, office management, auditing, and more.

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The below articles are all published in BC advantage Magazine and written and contributed by BC Advantage

Face to Face with AAPC's Reed Pew The AAPC has endured an interesting year and with the appointment of Reed Pew as the new Executive Director of the AAPC, the team at BC Advantage wanted to ask the questions many in our industry have been thinking. ... Read 5 minute with...Steve Verno I started in medical billing and coding back in 1992 when working for Whitney M. Young Jr. Health Center in Albany, NY. I was the office Manager. In 1993, I moved to Florida and saw a homemade ad on a bulletin board for a medical biller. I went to th... Read Medicare to try `pay for performance' WASHINGTON · After years of trying to rein in the runaway cost of the Medicare program, Congress has decided to use a carrot instead of a stick to change doctors' behavior. ... Read Inclusive Denials Experiencing a denial from an insurance company with little explanation is frustrating for all billers and coders. Appealing denials takes time and experience and sometimes results in further denials and then loss of revenue. Steve Verno shares some ... Read 5 MINUTES WITH... GRACE RICHARDSON Grace Richardson (GR): Since early 1998. I was in the middle of changing careers, not knowing exactly what I wanted to do, other than that I wanted to get into a different industry. I remember a close friend talking about the medical billing busines... Read Las Vegas Conference to present a full-range of physician and staff topics Hundreds of physicians, practice administrators, billing and coding professionals from all over the country are expected to participate in this year's Medical Practice Coding and Compliance Summit in Las Vegas this November. The goal: finding workabl... Read Electronic Medical Records use by Office-based Physicians in 2005 The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) recently released data regarding the use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) by office-based physicians during 2005. ... Read Latest on Medicare Payments, Policies and Practices New Hospital-Issued Notice of Noncoverage: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has introduced model language for a new Hospital Issued Notice of Noncoverage (HINN). HINN 11, as the new notice is called, may be used as a liability noti... Read 5 minutes with... Mindi Rothans I started in the medical field while I was in high school working with my mom at an Orthopedic Group. I was a file clerk and learned several front office duties. My senior year I took a part-time job with an Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon learning bo... Read CEU Survey Results We had an excellent response to our survey with 642 readers taking the time to answer our questions. We offered two $50 gift cards to Target to the participants and we are pleased to announce those two winners. ... Read 5 minutes with...Emily Thiriot After working for an orthopaedic specialist at the age of 19, and with the help of on the job training, Emily went onto a career in medical billing and coding ... Read Automated efficiency A survey conducted early this year, showed hospital and insurance executives agreeing that an automated medical claims and payment process could reduce the costs of health care and benefit patients ... Read Helping to diagnose hospital bills SOLVE A RUBIK'S CUBE blindfolded? No sweat. Explain quantum mechanics to a room full of second-graders? Not a problem. Drive from Renton to Bellevue on Interstate 405 at 8 a.m. on a weekday in 15 minutes? Come on, think up a tougher challenge than th... Read 5 minutes with...Jackie Fowler Jackie Fowler has started a medical billing company in Jacksonville, Florida with her business partner Wanda Eunice. BC Advantage speaks with Jackie about her new foray into the wonderful world of medical billing. ... Read Requirements for the Payment of Medicare Claims - A Selection of Some Important Criteria In addition to national and local coverage determinations (NCDs and LCDs), there are certain principles that apply to all Medicare claims. These are rooted in the Medicare laws and regulations. By drawing the attention of our provider community to th... Read Health Spending Major Cause for Bankruptcies With the recent passage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, a number of provisions of the law will likely have a significant effect on health care providers. Collection efforts, particularly against self-pay patien... Read HIPAA - Expert outlines how to respond to a security breach You have just been told an employee's laptop containing your patients' claims information was stolen. Should you make a public announcement, publish a warning on the website, or hope the problem goes away? ... Read ICD-9 Coding for Beginners - MARCH 2006 EDITION This course provides an introduction to the International Classification of Diseases, (Ninth Revision), Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) manual. Volumes 1 and 2 are discussed at length including discussion of the coding tables in Volume 2. Participan... Read Complete transcript of the HIPAA roundtable discussion Since it became law in 2003, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been invoked many times when relatives, neighbors and other interested individuals have sought information about a medical patient and were denied that i... Read New tax change allows startup costs deduction There's a new tax break for small-business owners you may not have heard of. Simply known as the Section 195 deduction, this new provision allows businesses to deduct $5,000 of their startup costs. This article from MSNBC.com gives you the skinny on ... Read

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