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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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Consensus Cloud Solutions Unveils Conductor Integration Platform
Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCSI), the world's largest provider of digital cloud fax solutions, recently announced the availability of Consensus Conductor, which provides seamless integration technology that supports the latest standards...
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DME Billing Coverage Limitations and Exclusions
Durable medical equipment (DME) billing is an essential aspect of revenue cycle management in the healthcare industry. As the industry evolves, DME has grown in importance and now serves millions of patients. However, managing the billing processes a...
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How to Reduce Patient Collections in a Medical Office
Putting on the dreaded collections hat is a necessary evil that every medical office can relate to. You can run a tight ship, doing your very best to collect payments at the time of service, but because of the complexities of medical billing and emer...
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What Are SOAP Notes? (And Why They’re Important for Insurance Billing)
Healthcare documentation is a critical component for your holistic practice, both in terms of delivering great care to your patients and for insurance billing purposes-not to mention the importance of having some form of documentation in the event of...
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2023 ICD-10-CM Code Changes
In 2022, there were 159 new codes; the 2023 ICD-10-CM code update includes 1,176 new, 28 revised, and 287 deleted codes - a substantial change from last year. The 2023 ICD-10-CM codes are to be used for discharges from October 1, 2022 through Septemb...
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How MBC Can Help in Reducing Your Gastroenterology Billing Errors
Gastroenterology billing and coding is complex and challenging as gastroenterologists provide both medical and surgical services. Accurate, efficient billing and coding for gastroenterology services ensure the survival of the practice amidst various ...
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Let's Talk about Weed (As in the Doctor)
Early September marked my 33rd year on the administrative side of healthcare. This followed my 56th birthday in April when I officially entered the realm of "pushing 60."
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Significant Changes to Emergency Department E/M Reporting Coming in 2023
In 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) published significant changes to the evaluation and management (E/M) code descriptions, associated times, and coding guidelines applicable to the largest and most reported code range at the time of 9920...
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Administrative Simplification Transactions Basics
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a series of fact sheets to help explain how HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) electronic adopted transactions streamline health care billing through the use ...
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What You Need to Know About Physical Therapy Billing
Physical therapists, like any healthcare provider, generally don't get into the profession because they like working with numbers. But no practice is going to succeed without a good understanding of the complex medical billing system.
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Orthopoxvirus and Monkeypox Coding and Guidance New Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) codes have been created that streamline the reporting of orthopoxvirus and monkeypox testing and immunizations currently available on the United States market.
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Avoiding Risk When Using Assistant Modifiers
Most of us are very aware of the risks that inappropriate bundling modifier usage can cause, but when is the last time we thought about how other modifiers may put us at risk?
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Medicare Patients and Stark Law: What You Need to Know
If your medical practice treats patients covered by Medicare, then you already know that there are countless regulations you need to closely adhere to in order to avoid any issues with the government.
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AMA Announces CPT Update for COVID-19 Boosters Adapted to Omicron
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently announced an editorial update to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)®, the nation's leading medical terminology code set for describing healthcare procedures and services, that includes eight new codes...
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