Did you know that medical billing and coding is expected to grow at a rate of 13% for the next 7 years? That’s much higher than the average of 7%! You…
Private practice lays the responsibility for operations and financial management of the practice into the hands of physicians. That’s a responsibility is a topic that too often goes unaddressed in…
According to a Healthcare & Business Technology report regarding medical billing, almost $125 billion in uncollected revenue happens each year due to: 1. medical billing errors, and 2. failure to…
BCPI Advanced Model - The Basics As of early October, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) began to implement the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement - Advanced Model.…
Do you know what your practice’s clean-claims submission rate is? Because if it’s not currently 95% or above, you’ve got work to do. Claim rejections are costly. Anything lower than…
Payers don’t accept deleted CPT® codes, so your claims can’t succeed if your medical procedure codes are out of date. But do you know how often you need to update…
It’s a compelling question; Are EHRs responsible for low provider productivity compared to when they were using paper based records in 2009. Providers often hold the complicated EHR systems responsible…
The "early release" of the Category I vaccine product codes prior to publication of CPT® 2006 was approved by the CPT Editorial Panel. In recognition of the public health interest in…
A longtime problem in workplaces around the world received international attention earlier this week, as the World Health Organization (WHO) announced it would be updating its definition of "burnout" to…
Take a look around any big hospital and you’ll find plenty of imposing technology: surgical robots, artificial organs, wireless brain sensors, three-dimensional imaging visualizations. But you have to look harder…
The hospital chargemaster is the heart of the revenue cycle, capturing the costs of every billable service or item delivered at the organization. To keep the heart pumping, providers are…
Getting our hands in-deep with how AI is actually bringing changes in Medical Coding Automation, it is required the proper understanding of what the basics of what Medical Billing and…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a second set of revisions to Chapter 10 of the Medicare Claims Processing Manual providing instructions to home health agencies…
Not all individuals have the same illnesses, and even for the same chronic diseases, how any patient is affected varies. In determining payments for care, Medicare introduced modifiers to gauge…
Q: Are there any updates on the Evaluation and Management (E/M) code requirements? A: The American Medical Association (AMA) has now weighed in with their E/M requirement modifications, which means that…
The clock is ticking, and you’re trying to select the right E/M level from a drop-down menu in the EHR. Choose a level that’s too high, and you run the…