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Collections: Banish Co-pay, A/R Problems

5 tips help you recover deserved pay. Collecting money from patients, especially during a recession, can be challenging. If your front desk is responsible for collecting copays and sometimes old balances, its success or failure has a dramatic impact on the practice’s bottom line. Check out five ways you can improve your front desk collection efforts: 1. When [...] Related articles:

  1. Medical Billers: Test Your Collections Know-How Here This nifty tool tells you if collections cluelessness is...
  2. Time Your Surgical Collections Right by Referencing Payer Contracts Find out if you’re legal in collecting patient portion...
  3. Overcome ‘Forgot the Checkbook’ Excuses With This Checklist   When you get the old “I forgot my...

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February 7, 2010
Coding Challenge / E/M / modifier 25

Gastroenterology Coding Challenge: Repositioning a G Tube

Reading 44373’s code descriptor is key to getting your G Tube claim right. Question: The gastroenterologist goes to the hospital to treat a patient that had recently been admitted because his gastrojejunostomy tube had migrated to his stomach. After performing a problem focused interval history and exam, the gastroenterologist decides to perform an EGD to reposition the [...] Related articles:

  1. Gastroenterology Coding Education: Bravo Cap Placements Question: A new patient reports to the gastroenterologist with complaints...
  2. How Should I Code a Fibrinolytic Agent Instillation Via Chest Tube?Different calendar dates matter, but multiple instillations the same day...
  3. Winter Laceration Repair: How Do I Code For Dermabond?Warning: Your coding will vary depending on who’s getting the...

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February 7, 2010
Medicare / Oncology / Provider News

Oncology Coding: Update Your PET Claims With This New Guidance

Here are the requirements the exam must meet, according to Medicare. If your PET claim meets certain requirements, you don’t need to append modifier Q0 (Investigational clinical service provided in a clinical research study that is in an approved clinical research study), according to MLN Matters article MM6753. Effective for dates of service on or after Nov. [...] Related articles:

  1. Which PET Code Is Best for Brain Images? Question: Which CPT code is appropriate for PET performed...
  2. Oncology Coding 2010 Update: 3 New Lab Services CodesWatch for your chance to replace 86316 with more specific...
  3. ICD-9 Update: Take Your Oncology Coding Specificity Up a Notch With 7 2010 Changes Tumor lysis syndrome is getting its own code —...

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February 7, 2010