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Know the reimbursement rules for students working in your medical practice. Many medical offices and clinics allow medical students to train in their practices to gain invaluable clinical education and experience. It’s important to support students with this much-needed hands-on work and training. There are some legal implications associated with billing for students’ work, however; […]
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Staying up to date is essential to the business of healthcare, but current codes aren’t always the answer. When you’re responsible for an audit, working an appeal, or researching proper code use for a previous encounter, knowing the code descriptors and guidelines that applied in the past can make all the difference to your job. […]
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When ICD-10-CM is updated Oct. 1, so are these National Coverage Determinations. Are you wondering which National Coverage Determinations (NCDs) will be affected by the thousands of diagnosis code changes going into effect Oct. 1? A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) transmittal tells all. CMS Transmittal 11546, issued Aug. 4, is a one-time […]
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An analysis of the future and salary of medical coding professionals in the US along with ways in which the AAPC’s CPC certification can help you position yourself with an advantage. This is an important fact both at the certification phase and the employment (jobs) phase.
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Choose the correct codes to paint an exact picture of a patient’s health. We’ve all seen the facts and statistics on obesity in America. “We are the most overweight country in the world,” said one commercial I saw recently. That may not be quite true, but while researching information for this article I found some […]
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Take 5 to read up on recent coding and billing news. There are plenty of coding updates in November, including those made to certain Medicare policies. Payment thresholds for physical, occupational, and speech-language pathology are also posted for the 2022 calendar year, as are Medicare cost sharing amounts. And HCPCS Level II code set updates […]
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Attendees spend two days learning about risk adjustment in a value-based healthcare system. Following Day 1 of Riskcon, Day 2 of AAPC’s two-day boutique conference convened virtually with medical billers, coders, auditors, and other healthcare business professionals — all eager to learn how to take the risk out of risk adjustment. The first challenge was […]
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What are the latest code changes? Get the facts, fast. This month, there’s new billing guidance for a COVID-19 vaccine; there are three new HCPCS Level II codes for COVID-19 therapeutic injections; and Medicare payment allowances for the 2021-22 influenza vaccine codes have been released. FDA Approves COVID-19 Vaccine Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine received the green […]
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Come to terms with payers to protect your provider’s revenue stream. “Medical necessity” is an important concept for medical coders and auditors to understand. Health insurance companies (payers) use criteria to determine whether items or services provided to their beneficiaries or members are medically necessary. As a rule, payers will not reimburse for medical procedures, […]
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How long does it take to become a medical billing and coding specialist? If you’re considering a career in medical billing and coding and have seen claims promising to teach you the skills and knowledge you need in a matter of weeks, we’d like to set the record straight. Career Choice: Is Medical Billing and […]
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