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Behavioral Health Reimbursement Guide for 2023
innoviHealth's Reimbursement Guide for Behavioral Health gives you the coding, billing, and documentation support you need to get paid properly and keep it.
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Burnout: A Threat to Our Healthcare System?
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has generated a substantial increase in the workload of healthcare professionals, leading to physical and mental distress among professionals, resulting in an increase in burnout.
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Your Patient Data Privacy Policy: Why It Matters (+ What to Include)
The healthcare industry experienced the second-highest increase in cost-per-breach in 2020 - only second to the energy industry. Whether due to an internal attack, a cybersecurity hacker, accidentally publishing information, or something else, patien...
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12 Tips to Grow Your Medical Practice in 2023
If you are a private practice owner, you may feel it is difficult to attract new patients. By setting a plan and sticking to it, you can set yourself up for success in 2023. Medical practice management requires the collaborative efforts of all team m...
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Value-Based Healthcare and Evidence-Based Treatment Rank Highest
Recently, we conducted a new survey on our LinkedIn asking respondents the question, "What do you see as the most important factor that technology solutions can solve to fuel better and more efficient patient outcomes in 2023?"
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To Benchmark or Not to Benchmark: That Is the Question
Curiosity is both a blessing and a curse. Wanting to know how you compare to other practices can be so enticing that we are sometimes willing to accept assumptions that are not always supported by the evidence.
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Demonstrating the Value of Patient Access in Challenging Times
It's no secret: Most healthcare organizations today are facing significant financial challenges - and there isn't a single culprit to blame. Instead, it's a perfect storm of circumstances fueled by an uncertain economy, workforce shortages, ongoing C...
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The Medicare Advantage Bill Was Crafted in Response to Complaints
U.S. Senators Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and Dr. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, have introduced the bipartisan Medicare & You Handbook Improvement Act, which is meant to ensure that when seniors assess their Medicare coverage options, they have the necess...
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Payers Wrongly Cutting Payments to Physicians for E/M Services
Payers have been wrongly cutting payments to physicians for evaluation and management (E/M) services - often automatically through the use of claim-editing algorithms. A new AMA resource helps physicians fight back against health insurer downcoding.
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ICD-10-CM Coding Guidelines Made Easy: 2023
The ICD-10-CM updates for 2023 are effective October 1 2022! Important changes were made to coding for complications, dementia, malignant neoplasms of lymphoid tissue, pregnancy, abortion, underdosing and diabetes mellitus....
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THE 2023 E&M SLIDERULE
We have entered the final phases of production of the 2023 SlideRule and have added the preorder page to our online store. The great news here is the first thousand should be shipping at the start of the year....
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A Case Study on Radiology Billing
Billing for radiology correctly requires more than just keeping track of money. It is a multi-phase process that necessitates persistently calculating money on each step. Throughout the expanding process, one needs to be tenacious and proactive to en...
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What Is a Patient Care Policy? (+ How to Write One)
If you've never heard of a patient care policy before, then you might ask yourself if your medical practice needs another piece of business writing. The answer is yes; it's a good rule of thumb for your practice to have such a policy.
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Modifier FT
As of January 1, 2022, CMS created a new modifier for an unrelated E/M visit during a postoperative period. It was revised as of April 1, 2022, quite possibly due to some questions on usage. Modifier FT is described as follows.
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Coding and Documentation for Arterial Embolization
Arterial catheter embolization is an interventional radiology procedure that requires detailed documentation of the steps performed by the physician to maximize coding and reimbursement. The procedure places medications, embolic agents, or a radiopha...
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Identifying Common Coding Errors for Lower Extremity Arterial Interventions
Each day, thousands of patients are undergoing one or more therapeutic interventions, the most common ones being angioplasty, stent, and atherectomy of the lower extremity arteries to treat various forms of peripheral vascular disease. This article w...
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