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Published by: Billing-Coding, Inc

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

Type: Print & Digital - USA

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

Compliance Tip: Dust off your compliance plan Many practices that we work with have compliance plans that gathering dust on a shelf somewhere, ignored and unused. ... Read NEW two-year grace period with ICD-10 Bill - H.R. 2652 Palmer, R-Ala., sponsored the most recent ICD-10 bill that would give docs a two-year grace period for submitting claims with errors. ... Read Happy Patients Who Pay More Bills Collecting more from your patients while also keeping them happier?  Sounds too good to be true. This article shows you a few ideas that could help make this a reality for your practice. ... Read The #1 Need in Physician Practices Today And It's Not an EHR In working with thousands of physician practices over the past 5 years, I've found one need that is almost universal. ... Read How to Identify Who Sent Your Healthcare EFT Payment Healthcare providers interested in cost savings and other benefits are converting to electronic payments at a steady clip. ... Read EKG Interpretation in E/M Auditing EKGs: Do you get 2 points for MDM (amount and/or complexity) or 1 point for order/review? ... Read 5 Reasons Why Doctors Hate Their EHR Software Over the past 5 years, I've done almost nothing other than speak with one medical practice after another about how they document their patient vists and why they hate the EHR software they use to do it. ... Read ICD-10 Readiness Step 5: Getting Paid Equals Increased Documentation There's a saying that medical coders have that will be important for all healthcare providers to remember once ICD-10 takes effect: ... Read National HealthCare Leaders Association 1st Annual Conference in Orlando, FL!! WAVES OF CHANGE, OCEANS OF SUCCESS! ... Read Top 8 Tips to Achieve Patient Billing Success The process really is painless for all involved. After the claim has been processed by insurance, any patient responsibilities - like copays, coinsurances, or deductibles - are then charged directly to the patient's credit card. ... Read 5 Minutes with... Lorri Tolliver,CPC, CPMA, CEMC I obtained my first job in the medical field in 1984 with a local chiropractor who was willing to sit and train me in billing for his services and providing therapeutic treatments to patients.  ... Read Billing injections on the same day as an E/M service Physicians often reflexively attach what they believe to be an appropriate E/M code to a claim on the same date the patient receives an injection. ... Read Netter's Atlas of Surgical Anatomy for CPT® Coding An understanding of anatomy and pathophysiology is an essential skill for every coding professional and this book assists in those times when operative reports prove to be more challenging. ... Read HCCs: What Are They... And What Do They Mean? In the changing world of Medicare Advantage plans, HCCs are taking the place of ICD-9-CM codes as well as setting the stage for the incoming ICD-10-CM codes. To know where we are going, first we have to know where we have been. This article will intr... Read ICD-10 Limited End-to-End Testing with Submitters for 2015 Beginning July 20 through July 24, 2015, CMS will offer end-to-end testing to a small group of providers. ... Read Medicare Overpayment Demands: The Financial Timeline and Options The process of Medicare contractors such as Zone Program Integrity Contractors (ZPIC) and Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC), issuing adverse medical review findings and Medicare Administrative Contractors (MAC) subsequently demanding repayment of alle... Read Important New Concerns for Billing Companies, Providers, and Suppliers The goal of Final Rule 6045-F is to strengthen the integrity of the Medicare program and curtail the enrollment of fraudulent providers. ... Read Proposed Rule Outlines EHR Requirements for Providers for 2015 through 2017 ... Read ICD-10 PROVIDER READINESS The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a nonprofit organization focused on the use of health IT (Information Technology) to improve healthcare information exchange; enhancing quality of care, improving efficiency and reducing costs.<... Read MAB: Ask the Experts What tax deduction classification do you give to name the difference between the amount billed and the amount paid by an insurance company ... Read

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