Non-surgical hospital services often go undocumented or under-billed for urologists. Why? Many coders, both new and seasoned, have little experience
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Demystify Tricky Hydration Coding Rules to Improve Your Infusion/Injection Reporting
If you find coding injection, infusion, and hydration services more than a little confusing, you’re not alone. The Medicare CPT
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Coding for Inpatient or Observation Status: More Than Just the Two-Midnight Rule
Incorrectly coding a patient’s hospital status could cost your physicians significantly, even years down the road. The Centers for Medicare
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If you’re not coding repeat ablations the right way, you’re leaving money on the table. Considering that it’s not at
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Pin Down the Subtleties in CPT Wrist Coding
Wrists may be small compared to the rest of the body, but there are a numerous procedures that can be
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Brace Yourself for 8 New Hospice Quality Measures & Revised Data-Reporting Mandates
Hospices have a lot to juggle in 2018, including increased audit scrutiny and payment changes. But it’s the significant changes
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Heed Expert Tips & Tricks to Sharpen Your Medical Billing Process
If your practice is like most others, about 30 percent of your revenue comes from patient payments. But collecting patient
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Don’t Make These Mistakes When Billing for Endoscopy Services
Billing Medicare and other payers for endoscopy services is pretty different from billing for other types of procedures. And if
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Keeping Track of Time: The Best Way to Code for Critical Care
Coding for physician inpatient services, especially critical care, is deceptively straightforward. The reality is that the details of each code
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Pain Management Coders: Are You Ready for 2018?
Pain management coders: There are scores of new and modified codes to be aware of in 2018, warns Amy Turner,
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