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Streamline Healthcare Operations: EHR and RCM Integration
Sunrise Services, LLC integrates Azalea Health’s ONC-certified EHR system with expert revenue cycle management (RCM) services to enhance medical practice efficiency. This partnership streamlines workflows, improves billing accuracy, and ensures regulatory compliance, ultimately boosting financial performance and patient care quality. Practices benefit from real-time insights and secure communication tools.
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Essential Guide to Implementing Chronic Care Management
Running a private medical practice can be challenging. Many physicians are stretched thin, balancing the desire to provide high-quality, personalized care with the financial realities of running a small to medium size business. Most physicians feel the pressure to see more patients just to keep up with rising costs, but that can lead to burnout…
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How to Get Started With Outsourcing Your Revenue Cycle Processes
Ready to get started with outsourcing your revenue cycle processes? Here’s a step-by-step overview: By taking these steps before beginning work with an outsourcing partner, you can ensure that all expectations are met—and ultimately help streamline the billing process while boosting patient satisfaction in your practice! Want to learn more? Check out our website or…
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Selecting the Principal Diagnosis
The circumstances of an inpatient’s admission always govern the selection of the principal diagnosis, as defined in the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS). The UHDDS defines the principal diagnosis as “the condition established after study to be chiefly responsible for occasioning the admission of the patient to the hospital for care.” This definition has…
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AMA announces CPT code set ready for third doses of COVID-19 vaccines
The American Medical Association (AMA) announced that the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set is ready for the rollout of third doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The two vaccine administration codes are effective for immediate use as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized third doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna for…
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Vaping: How Are We Supposed to Code This?
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Understand How To Code Telehealth, Telemedicine
Hint: The terms aren’t interchangeable. Providers are increasing patients’ access to healthcare services through virtual communications. If providing services to patients without an in-person, face-to-face interaction makes sense for your practice, it’s important for you to know how to code the services correctly. While you may hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, from a coding…
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Reporting Cardiac Stress Tests
Interpretation only, or supervision, too? The answer affects your coding. If coding for cardiac stress tests makes you want to pull your hair out, you are not alone. Understanding the nuances of the appropriate stress test codes can be tricky. Here’s how to avoid the confusion so you can seamlessly report stress tests. Notice What…
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New PT CPT Codes for 2017
CPT® 2017 has a few expanded codes for physical therapy evaluations and follow-up exams. These codes are in effect for dates of service starting January 1, 2017. 97001 to be replaced by three codes in 2017: These new codes will add more specificity and details regarding the scope of the evaluation and states that it…
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It’s the holiday season….time to spread the Flu!