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15+ years of experience coordinating projects, administrative duties and processing large volumes of data in diverse office environments.
Certified Professional Coder-AAPC
CPT, HCPCS Level II and ICD-10-CM.
Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology.
Electronic health records.
HIPAA/Patient confidentiality.
Thorough research skills and detail handling.
Exceptional time management and organization.
Certified Professional Coder-AAPC
CPT, HCPCS Level II and ICD-10-CM.
Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology.
Electronic health records.
HIPAA/Patient confidentiality.
Thorough research skills and detail handling.
Exceptional time management and organization.
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Transferrable skills you’ve obtained as a coder? (question/discussion)
As a medical coder, what are skills have you acquired that would be transferable to other types of employment?
Brush up skills
I’ve been out of the coding world for almost 2 years. I feel like I’ve lost all my knowledge. Is there anything out there that I can brush up on my skills and actually practice them and apply them?
Communication skills to fuel success throughout the facility
Professionals in Medical transcription need to have certain skills
Medical transcription which is also referred to as MT is an ally of the medical services. It is a fairly critical process which involves audio format to be converted in written text. Medical transcription is an essential service which has to be provided to various doctors and hospitals for maintenance of records. Also, Transcription India is outsourced from various companies.
Since medical transcription is a critical process it has to be handled with absolute care. It is a lengthy process which helps in maintaining patient information. For doctors it is one of the most important way of remembering the patient past history of illness and treatment. So what is exactly medical transcription?
A MT is performed by a medical transcriptionist. When a doctor sees a patient, he usually asks him about his past illnesses is any. His present medications, his discomforts, family history etc. he then notes it down. This is noted down by him in an audio format where the doctor records his own voice. The medical transcriptionist them converts this into text format which helps the doctor to save his precious time and help for future reference.
Transcription India is provided in many fields like gynecology, medicine, surgery, cardiology, oncology and dermatology. Their reports are prepared by the various transcription companies that they outsource information to. Acroseas global solutions is one such outsourcing company which deals in Transcription. Here the employees believe in providing quality transcription. Acroseas provide quality services with timely delivery and they believe in professionalism and accuracy.
Also, the professionals who work here need to have certain qualities like having knowledge about medical terms, having various skills of recording, skilled in hand eye coordination, adept with numerical methods etc.
Outsourcing is done in medical transcription because it has competitive rates and it helps in achieving the desired results in less amount of time. Even the medical industry has various advantages when outsourcing is done. MT services are also useful in preparing and maintaining records of various departments in a hospital or clinic like radiology department or oncology department. Everyone from individual to practicing doctors, to big hospitals can easily avail Transcription services.
Acroseas is a global provider of Transcription services & has been providing top-of-the-line transcriptions services to our clients worldwide. For more info – please log onto www.acroseas.com
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Make Perfect your ICD-9 Coding Skills
You can get increased payments when your ob-gyn provides additional visits outside of the normal global ob package; however you’ll have to ensure you have coded high-risk or complicated obstetrical care correctly â and that means perfecting your ICD-9 coding skills.
Be firm on perfect ICD-9s
To demonstrate the reason for the additional service, you have to link the ICD-9 code on the CMS-1500 claim form (boxes 21 and 24E) to an E/M code. You can add this to the claim that includes the global service or you can submit it as an additional claim.
Here’s an example: A 33-year-old patient, gravida 3, para 2 (both normal spontaneous vaginal delivery [NSVD] full term), is tended to 19 times due to developing pre-eclampsia. Post delivery, you review the case and find that the patient required six additional visits (beyond the usual 13) for this care. The documentation for three of these visits supports reporting 99212 while three of the visits have more extensive documentation that supports reporting 99213.
To add to it, post delivery, the patient experiences prolonged pain and irritation owing to a hemorrhoid. The ob-gyn tends to her for a thrombosed hemorrhoid, which he incises in the office two weeks post-delivery. In the end, the ob-gyn rechecks the patient at her six weeks postpartum visit.
Break it down: When coding for this patient, remember the claim form must note both the CPT codes describing the additional services as well as the diagnoses that depict why the patient required the additional services.
Heads up: Observe the fifth digits of these ICD-9-codes. The digit â3′ that takes place in most of these codes has become a â4′ in the last ICD-9 code to indicate a postpartum condition rather than an antepartum one. In other words, the patient has been discharged from the hospital after giving birth. Using â3′ indicates she did not deliver during the hospital stay.
To add to it, after delivery, the patient experiences prolonged pain and irritation owing to a hemorrhoid. The ob-gyn sees her for a thrombosed hemorrhoid, which he incises in the office two weeks post delivery. In the end, the ob-gyn rechecks the patient at her six weeks postpartum visit.
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