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Capture Payment for Addressing Your Patients’ SDOH

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CMS proposes to codify three services that aim to remove barriers to quality care. Healthcare practitioners, especially primary care providers, are spending more time and resources addressing economic and social conditions that influence their patients’ health these days. These social determinants of health (SDOH), as they’re called, can undermine a practitioner’s ability to successfully manage […]

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Capture Chronic Conditions in the Outpatient Setting With Confidence

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Know when to assign diagnosis codes for chronic conditions. While assigning diagnosis codes for chronic conditions may seem straightforward, some confusion remains regarding which conditions should be coded in the outpatient setting. Medical coders are responsible for assigning ICD-10-CM codes for all diagnoses made by a healthcare professional that affect the patient’s care. These codes […]

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Capture the Complete Clinical Picture With Precision

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Clinical validation could upend your current risk adjustment policies. The rise of risk adjustment-based managed care programs in the past 15 years within Medicare, Medicaid, and Affordable Care Act (ACA) plans has led to remarkably good news: There has been a significant improvement in the accuracy of the diagnosis codes abstracted from medical documentation among […]

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Capture SDOH Using 2021 E/M Guidelines

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EMRs are not the end-all for capturing essential MDM. As of Jan. 1, 2021, we have been given new evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines for outpatient office and ambulatory services that include specific areas of risk such as social determinants of health (SDOH). I applaud the electronic medical record (EMR) analysts who have proactively added […]

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Automate Your Workflow to Capture Lost Revenue

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Technology still requires human input to ensure the integrity of automated front-end and back-end processes. Ten years ago, the healthcare industry was pushed into the digital world via the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH); and while some healthcare professionals felt uprooted and/or poorly equipped for this change, others used it […]

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Use 2020 ICD-10-CM Codes for More Specific Medical Data Capture

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In a world of uncertainty, one thing medical coders can count on is ICD-10-CM yearly updates. It’s already that time of year again when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releases the ICD-10-CM code update for next year. Familiarizing yourself with the changes that go into effect Oct. 1 will help you capture […]

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Capture Two Common Integumentary Procedures in Urgent Care

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From wound repair to incision and drainage, know which CPT® codes accurately report simple to complex medical procedures. Laceration repair and abscess drainage are common in the urgent care setting. Let’s review proper medical coding and documentation for these integumentary procedures. Laceration Repairs Patients often present to the urgent care with minor injuries, including lacerations. […]
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How to capture all icd10 codes on complex patient visit

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We use an EMR for billing and the insurance companies are requiring all addressed diagnosis be reported on the 1500 claim. The problem is our EMR only allows 4 icd10 codes per CPT code. If patient is only in for one E/M-we are in a family practice office-what to do? Can anyone help me with this? Do you use "dummy" CPT codes? Thank you!

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Capture the Most Specific Diagnosis Codes for Pregnancy

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When coding, consider all documented factors such as current and pre-existing conditions, trimester, and age. To capture pregnancy diagnosis codes correctly, documentation must specify the type and trimester of the pregnancy, as well as all related, present co-conditions in the mother. It’s not appropriate to use Z34.00 Encounter for supervision of normal first pregnancy, unspecified […]
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Capture  Elements of Spinal Injections and Fluoroscopy

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In 2015, the CPT® codebook separated joint injections and aspirations into services “with” and “without” image guidance. This year, CPT® has taken a similar approach with spinal injection services. As of Jan. 1, 62310-63219 are deleted, and replaced with: 62320 Injection(s), of diagnostic or therapeutic substance(s) (eg, anesthetic, antis
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