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Articles By angela martin
Take Medicare Billing Training To Reduce Errors
By: angela martin
Medicare is one of the largest payers for most practices and understanding the importance of managing and reducing or eliminating these denials is important to any medical practice. Denial management is one of the most overlooked aspects of the revenue cycle, which can cost medical practices dear.(read
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Medical Coding And Billing: Now Cpt 99406, 99407 Coverage Extended To All Smokers
By: angela martin
While going about your daily coding chores, are you writing off tobacco cessation counseling as non-payable? In case this is true, it is time to change your tune.(read
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Family Practice Coding: Know The Icd-9 2011 Codes
By: angela martin
In ICD-9 2011, codes continue to be more and more specific necessitating a provider to document clearly to allow for selection of the most specific and accurate code.(read
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Pulmonology Coding: Real-life Modifier 25 Scenario
By: angela martin
The rationale of modifier 25 is that the doctor may need to indicate that on the day a procedure or service identified by a CPT code was performed, the patient’s condition called for an important, separately identifiable E/M service above and beyond the other service provided or beyond the usual preoperative and postoperative care associated with the procedure that was carried out.(read
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Ob-gyn Coding: Polish Up Your Twin Delivery, Ultrasound Coding
By: angela martin
Are you aware how to report ultrasounds and different-day deliveries? If not, you are not alone. Here our experts provide you with all the answers you need to get the most out of your multiple-gestation claims.(read
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Medical Coding & Billing: Know The Icd-9 2011 Changes
By: angela martin
Every year, in October you come face with new ICD-9 codes that you need to add to your diagnosis arsenal. This time too it’s no exception what with the new estasia, congenital malformation, and body mass index (BMI) codes you’ll need to know.(read
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Fit Your Colonoscopy Exam Coding As Per Diagnosis
By: angela martin
If your gastroenterologist carries out colonoscopy screening on a patient, you must always link a ‘screening’ diagnosis to the procedure even if the doctor discovers any abnormality in the process.(read
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Mental Health Coding: Stay Away From Denials
By: angela martin
Denials and delays are increasingly common responses from Medicare, managed care and insurance companies for behavioral health claims and requests for payment.(read
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Ophthalmology Coding: Report Emergency Services Separately?
By: angela martin
Tending to ophthalmic emergencies in the office is tough; as such your office should get more reimbursement is it? But that’s not always the way Medicare sees it. Read on for some expert advice that will help you get fair reimbursement for the ophthalmologist’s extra work.(read
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Podiatry Coding Update: Guidelines To Master Your Podiatry 59 Use
By: angela martin
A modifier in the right place at the right time is likely to get you a prompt and good reimbursement. You use one of the most key modifiers – modifier 59 so often that you think you know everything there is to know about it.(read
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