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Medical Coding – Plus Points of Medical Coding Outsourcing

Medical coding service is a grand outsourcing field in healthcare industry. Practitioners and hospitals are outsourcing to get various benefits. Professionals are giving more focus and attention to medical coding for easy and quick reimbursement. They are outsourcing to make their clinical staff free from non-core activity and increasing efficiency in clinical task.

Accurate coding is in high demand because insurance companies either government or private only accept the claim if codes are correct. If hospitals or individuals want precise coding, they have to hire professional coder for such. One can also get benefit of all such by outsourcing the task to specialized company.

Clinics and hospitals are utilizing their clinical staff for coding. As a result, they have to suffer from staff inefficiency, low reimbursement and turn-around time. The outsourcing can improve the claim payment turn-around time and the efficiency of clinical staff. The expert at coding company can assign various codes to disease, symptoms and process quickly and effectively.

Through outsourcing medical coding, one can get various advantages:

Huge Cost Benefit: Healthcare provider can save up to 60% of cost by choosing appropriate outsourcing company to complete task. You can directly save the cost of staffing, infrastructure, technologies and stationery. One can also get the solution at cutting rates so you can get double benefit by outsourcing.

Correctness and Trustworthiness: The remote companies have certified or experienced medical coding specialists who manage the accuracy. They are using latest technologies to improve the speed. The outsourcing partners are following HIPAA rules and regulations so there is completely trustworthiness.

Transparency: The medical coding companies do follow the complete transparent method while delivering the output. Most of the reputed companies maintain the transparency. It will help them to gain trust and reliability from the clients.

There are numbers of medical coding companies available in the market to fulfill your requirements. Make sure that you are choosing the one which fits into the criteria. Before outsourcing medical coding requirements to particular company, you must go through whole profiles. You can also ask colleagues for better company. You can also ask for few hours free to check the efficiency of company.

Ray Charles likes to write on medical related topics. He is currently affiliated with Medical Billing-India, a company providing medical billing and medical coding

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Urgent!!!!!Physical examination points

Hi guys..I need a help to count the Physical examination .
I have a doubt whether this can be coded based on 95 guideline or 97 guideline. I need an assistance.

Physical Examination.
General:
Build obese. General appearance happy, no acute distress, alert and oriented to person, place and time, pleasant, well hydrated, well nourished. LMP 03/11/2017-post.
Skin Eruption:
Site scalp. Distribution Localized. Description SebDerm- Erythematous, scaly patches noted. Scale appears loosely adhered and greasy. Condition status Patient with moderate improvement .
Skin Eruption-Additional:
Site bilateral arms and legs, trunk. Distribution Scattered. Description Xerosis- Diffuse and scattered skin involvement with barely visible scaling roughness of skin. There are diffuse excoriations noted secondary to the associated pruritis. There are areas of fine scales and hyperkeratosis observed sparing the flexural folds. Slight fissuring is noted. Condition status Patient with moderate improvement noted.

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data points for review of mri report

If my physician says in his documentation that he personally reviewed the IMAGES of the patients mri scan and also reviewed the report from the radiologist, can he get three points in the data section of medical decision making? So, in other words, he did not just read the radiologist report but actually looked at the scan himself. It states, "independent visualization of image, tracing or specimen itself (not simply review of report), which he did an independent visualization. Does he have to give his own interpretation to get the two points and if so, does it have to be a "formal" report? Can he also get the one data point for review and/or order of tests in the radiology section of CPT as well since he states that he reviewed the report? I wasn’t sure if getting three points would be considered "double dipping". Any comments would be appreciated!

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