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  • Use this Handy Chart to Help with Coding Prolonged Services

    If you’re confused about which code to use for your Medicare and private payer patients — as well as how best to calculate at what point the service will require a prolonged services add-on code — check out the following chart. Remember: Per the 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule, the Centers for Medicare…

  • 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…

  • Defining Patient Generated Health Data

    Defining Patient Generated Health Data

    We’ve all seen the ads for the new Apple Watch were a user can generate an EKG and possibly see anomalies in heart rhythm.  This is just one example of how new technology opens up a world in which generating data can come from any personal device. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health…

  • Clear up EOB Confusion

    Clear up EOB Confusion

    Remember: An EOB is not a bill. Working in the healthcare field, you know that acronyms are a part of your daily life. From the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); to local coverage determinations (LCDs); to relative value units (RVUs) — as a coder, you are constantly bombarded by acronyms. It’s common for one…

  • 4 Common Myths on Reporting Heart Failure Dx Codes

    ICD-10 can be tricky to master with the sheer number of diagnoses to choose from, sequencing rules, and special notes. However, you don’t have to sacrifice precious dollars in your cardiology practice.

  • What Makes A New Patient “New”?

    What Makes A New Patient “New”?

    Knowing the rules behind billing a new patient versus and established one can be a little tricky and it’s not always as straight-forward as it seems.

  • Can your current payment system store a card on file?

    With more and more patients using HSA’s there is more reason to set up a payment system in your medical office.

  • 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…

  • Advancing Care Information and Improvement Activities-Q&A

    Advancing Care Information and Improvement Activities-Q&A session from CMS’s webinar on 12/13/16.

  • Last Chance to get Medisoft V21 in 2016!

    Last chance for savings on Medisoft V21