There Is a Better Way to Make More Money Than Filing Iffy Top-Dollar Claims It’s probably happened to you more times than you could count. You’re seeing a patient for “routine” reasons, only to discover you’re dealing with quite a complicated case. Have you had enough physician coding training to code visits like those … Read more
Pursue These Strategies for Getting Outstanding Balances Paid Faster Your organization’s practitioners know the challenges of caring for an aging patient population. But as a billing administrator, you may feel challenged by another aging population—the outstanding balances piling up in accounts receivable (A/R). When insurance claims and patient bills go unpaid for too long, … Read more
“Struck by Duck” Makes a Good Meme, but Specific Coding’s a Serious Thing In October 2015, U.S. healthcare providers started using the ICD-10 coding guidelines. But even before the much-delayed implementation took place and even since, this system of over 69,000 diagnostic codes and nearly 72,000 procedural codes has been giving the internet a … Read more
To Capture More Revenue, Master These Commonly Misused Modifiers Despite the thousands of codes in the CPT® codebook (10,155 of them in 2018), you still won’t find one to fit every possible circumstance. That’s when you need to know how to use CPT® and CMS modifiers to ensure you’re properly reimbursed. What are modifiers? They … Read more
Find out How to Assign This High-Complexity Code with Confidence U.S. physicians are billing for the services they provide during subsequent hospital care with higher CPT® codes than they used to. That’s the finding the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) released in a major 2012 study. What’s driving this trend? Yes, sometimes doctors … Read more
Know the Issues BPCI Advanced Raises for How You Claim Reimbursement The way you’re reimbursed for the services you provide is changing. Increasingly, fee-for-service (FFS) models are giving way to bundled payment models. These models reward quality, not quantity, of services. They emphasize value over volume, and encourage providers to coordinate care across specialties and … Read more
Don’t Wait Until an Audit Notice Arrives. Take These Proactive Steps Today. U.S. healthcare spending continues to rise, and news about Medicare overpayments threatening the program’s integrity continues to grab headlines. In March 2018, for example, the Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) six-month audit of outpatient physical therapy services claims brought to light an … Read more