Scrubbing is the best way to ensure your claims are clean of unbundling overpayments. A hospital finance department should not treat National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) edits as irrelevant to inpatient billing simply because payers don’t use the NCCI to edit inpatient claims before payment. Instead, hospitals should institute internal controls to ensure claims are […]
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Building a Chargemaster
Configuring a chargemaster for medical services is like constructing a building. The more complex the building (or medical services), the more planning, skill, and manpower needed to do the job. The chargemaster of a primary hospital will be different from a tertiary hospital with more acute specialty services. The volume of services rendered gives an […]
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