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Medical Necessity: Is It Really Necessary?

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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Women: How Are You Doing? Really.

National Women’s Health Week, May 10-16, is a good time to think about yourself for a change. April 10 is Mother’s Day. How will you spend your special day? Chances are, you’ll spend it doting on your family, as usual. And that’s OK, as long as that maternal instinct isn’t jeopardizing your own health. Unfortunately, […]

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How Many Units of 95165 Can You Bill, Really?

Three credible sources give three different answers, and only one is right. The definition for billing units of allergy serum preparation for patients was recently challenged by a colleague of mine who works in the allergy space. Are their limitations on diluted antigens when counting units for CPT 95165 Professional services for the supervision of […]

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The medical alarm systems- you really need them

With increasing rate of health risks among the people, the need of medical alarm systems is really getting prominent these days. Each day a large number of patients are admitted to the medical care centers, a majority of them being suffering from illness and sudden attacks. Such conditions are really getting venerable among the people especially among the senior citizens. And to such immediate emergency calls the medical alarm systems offers the most viable solutions.

Medical alarms can be seen similar to mobile communication devices but these are more potent than the mobile phones, as they are easy to install and operate and the user don’t have to search the call list to look for the emergency call number. With the medical alarm systems you can simply call to the emergency medical alert center with the push of a button. Each day we can see a number of people who die, not because they suffered from any serious medical condition, but they were unable to call for help, when the emergency arose. Just that few minutes, if he was able to call for help his life would have been saved. And the medical alarm system is the answer to such emergency calls.

All those who are subjected to serious health issues and those who demand constant monitoring of their health conditions can be benefited from these medical alarm systems. The medical alarm systems are the best option for the senior citizens as well. The elderly alert devices are an integration of a number of gadgets that keep the senior citizen connected to the emergency health care servicemen. When ever any emergency occurs, the user has to press the panic alert button and the user will be connected to the emergency response center, where he will be in a direct interaction with the person sitting in the emergency response center. The person can inform the type of situation he is in and accordingly the emergency health care center will inform the neighbors and the concerned family members. And also the nearby emergency health care center will also be informed. With in the few minutes the team of health care experts arrives at the spot and the first aid is provided and if needed the person is even taken to the hospital.

Alex Stuart is associated with Lifelink USA that is a dealer of Medical Alarm and Medical Alert services in United States

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Medicare Coding Question (really more Billing than anything)

We are having an issue with a patient. He is stating that he has been told by Medicare that his dad can have a second surgery only 60 days after the first procedure (same body part – opposite side).

However, my very experienced biller (30 years) is having difficulty making him understand the concept of the 90-day global period and the fact that if we do surgery prior to that time on a second body part, we most likely won’t get paid for the surgery.

So, if a Medicare patient has a surgical procedure with a 90-day global period, when is the earliest that patient can have another procedure by the same surgeon? EG: Patient has a LEFT total knee on 1/1/17. Is the EARLIEST he can have the RIGHT total knee at any date after April 3rd (92 days total as listed in the CMS global period)? Is my biller missing something?

Any references you can point us to would be helpful as the patient states he has two sources that are telling him 60 days – one at the national office and one at the local office. HELP!

Julie V.
TJRC

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