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Track Payer’s Preferred H1N1 Admin Code — or Risk Rejections

Code 488.1 does not = confirmed lab. Swine flu has made an early arrival in several states and in your 2009 preventive and sick coding. To avoid denials for H1N1 vaccination administration, you’re going to have to check which of three administration code options your major payers want. “Some payers want you to use the new [...] Related articles:

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November 3, 2009
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Big Insurers Underspend On Medical Care, Senate Probe Finds

Which big health insurance company did lawmakers single out? Is it the one that gives you the most denials trouble? A US Senate probe confirms what many coders and billers have been suspecting all along — that six major medical insurers aren’t spending as much as they should providing actual health care. Insurance industry officials say that [...] Related articles:

  1. Insurers Offer to Charge Sick People Less …… and healthy people more. In an unexpected move last...
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  3. Stimulus Package Crash Course for Health Care ProvidersIf your head is swimming trying to figure out what...

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November 3, 2009