In an effort to reduce administrative burdens on hospitals and other providers, CMS has reduced the minimum medical record requests from Medicare Recovery Auditors — formerly known as Recovery Audit…
It’s too much work. It’s too expensive. It’s too confusing. It’ll slow my coders down. With all the fears, complaints, warnings, and dire predictions surrounding ICD-10, it’s easy to lose…
Healthcare vendor readiness is about ensuring vendors can accommodate your ICD-10 needs. There are basically three elements to the assessment: Identify your vendors List and review contracts Evaluate vendor offerings…
In an effort to scale back use of high-priced imaging of questionable value in cancer treatment, Medicare has proposed ending reimbursement for post-treatment positron emission tomography scanning in prostate cancer…
On Oct. 1, 2014 -- just 19 months from now -- the U.S. healthcare industry will begin using a new coding system for the first time in more than 30…
Since ICD-10 implementation affects almost every department in a medical practice or hospital, it's fair to say that it's more than a medical coding problem. There are plenty of challenges…
The governing board of the American Medical Association (AMA) has been considering a proposal that could save commercial health insurers tens of millions of dollars but slow insurers' efforts to…
Manipulation under anesthesia is a treatment that includes manipulation of multiple body joints for chronic pain conditions and is performed in ASCs by orthopedic surgeons and specially trained chiropractors. According…
At the 10th Annual Orthopedic, Spine and Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference in Chicago on June 16, Stephanie Ellis, RN, CPC, with Ellis Medical Consulting, discussed 15 current procedure terminology coding…
Healthcare vendor readiness is about ensuring vendors can accommodate your ICD-10 needs. There are basically three elements to the assessment: Identify your vendors List and review contracts Evaluate vendor offerings…
The evaluation of UI has as its goal confirmation of the diagnosis, identification of any reversible causes, and identification of factors that require further diagnostic or therapeutic interventions
There should be a Medical Biller and Coder in every doctor's office, medical facility, nursing home or hospital.
It's official. The compliance date for the ICD-10-CM code set for outpatient diagnosis coding is Oct. 1, 2014
When Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first proposed the one-year delay of the compliance date for the transition to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10), it estimated savings of billions to the healthcare industry.
What A Thorough Medical Coding Career Description Contains ... www.raritanhighlands.org3/24/11 What A Thorough Medical Coding Career Description Contains When you are looking for a medical coding career description, you most…
Filed a claim during the legal battle between the American Medical Association (AMA) and UHC? There’s good news for you.