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Give Your Patients the Digital Experience They Want

Kyruus survey shows that patients prefer the convenience of digital avenues when scheduling appointments and researching care options. To ensure that your healthcare facility offers a positive interaction with potential and existing patients, it is important to understand what patients want and, increasingly, expect. Kyruus recently announced the findings from its fifth annual survey, published […]

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HEALTHCON 2019: You Don’t Want This Guy Knocking at Your Door

HEALTHCON 2019 (April 28-May 1 in Las Vegas) is for everyone on the business side of healthcare, and provides cutting-edge education, networking, and other opportunities to attendees. Expert speakers, such as Office of Inspector General (OIG) Special Agent Tony Maffei, help make this a professional event you can’t miss. AAPC asked Maffei about his presentation, […]

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What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

AAPC spotlights its members each month by featuring “Minute with a Member” articles in their magazine, Healthcare Business Monthly. The “Minute with a Member” feature interviews dedicated AAPC members, who share their medical coding story, as well as thoughts about AAPC, personal information, and professional aspirations. One of the questions AAPC asks them is “If […]
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Want to Be a Writer? Get Published in a National Magazine

If you’ve always wanted to be a writer, here’s your chance. AAPC’s Healthcare Business Monthly provides an opportunity to be published in a national medical coding magazine. It looks great on your resume and your expertise will be recognized, which builds your credibility in the medical coding industry. By sharing and giving back what you’ve learned, you […]
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Carriers that WANT you to add Modifier 51

I know most carriers (especially Medicare) don’t want you to add modifier 51 when multiple procedures are billed. The computer edit systems will do it for you.

I know there are some exceptions. Wellcare, for example, requires providers to add 51 on claims where appropriate.

I am looking for any other carriers that require it to be added to claims

Bonus points for website links and claim policies you can reference.

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I want to work in a hospital setting–is that realistic?

I am currently in the middle of the CPC training course and hope to finish by early summer. I have no work experience in the healthcare industry at all. My ultimate goal is to work in a hospital setting because I really like working in large, busy, diverse settings like that. My question is–if I could get my foot into a hospital even in a non-coding position, perhaps as a patient coordinator or something similar, would I stand a chance of eventually transitioning to a coder?

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Take Meeting Notes People Want to Read

Record the actions and tasks of your organization with clarity and confidence. You attend a meeting at which you are given a task to complete, but after hundreds of phone calls, emails, and more meetings, you forget what you were asked to do. If only there were meeting minutes you could reference. Maybe meeting minutes […]
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Top 3 Reasons Why People Want to Become Medical Assistants

With our vast growing economy, jobs are insufficient but the economy continues to grow and the medical field just doesn’t stop expanding and growing. Have you always wanted to do something within the medical field but simply do not want to become a doctor or nurse? Well consider taking on the job of a medical assistant. Don’t looks down on this position as they are considered the wing man of all doctors and play a huge role in the medical industry. There are many reasons why people would want to become assistants in the medical field.

First, studying is easy and convenient as you can not only do in on campus but you can do it online too. With our advance technology, you can download your lectures and go at your own pace to gain your certification. Having said this, if you are on rocky grounds about taking this path into your future, you could always use the eCampus which many teaching institutes offer to study part time. in addition to that, this subject gives you the advantage to do your own research and explore the internet to look for informative details to help you understand. As this field is one that is pretty much on the surface with no difference in terminology and such, it is easy for you to look up different sources.

Second of all, by placing your future in this line, you can get trained in less than a year and start kicking it in the real way. This is because during the training process, you are not only taught the theoretical side of things, you also get to do many hands on activities which would give you the experience and exposure that you need. This would include doing simple medical things such as drawing blood from a patient, cleaning wounds, bandaging a sprained ankle and moving on to bigger things such as removing casts and sewing stitches. Instead of spending a good 3-4 years in college taking general education classes along with your subjects of interest, medical assisting schools generally focus on training you in the subjects you need to know on a daily basis.

Furthermore, another reason people would want to look into medical assisting is the hot employment rate. This job is one that is at high demand hence there would be no problem in landing a good and solid career, even more if you’ve got a certificate to show your work quality. By pursuing this career, you are actually guaranteed a job provided you are responsible enough to carry out your duties. This is so because once you’ve completed your full training course, you would be well off to work in any medical sector doing almost anything that your certificate allows you too. In example, patient care, clinical assisting, pharmacology, medical insurances, bookkeeping, laboratory procedures, therapeutic care and so on.

In conclusion, there are many reasons as to why one should consider heading their careers into the path of medical assistants. Not only do you get to work with a wide variety of people, you also get to pick up many skills along the way from soft skills right down to good informative knowledge.

For more medical assistant job description and information about medical assistant programs, visit MedicalAssistantOpportunities.com.

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I want to apprentice under hospital coder

Hi! I live in Orange County, CA. I’ve really been wanting to become a stronger coder and I would love to sit and learn from a hospital coder. I’d love to work for a hospital but they require so many years under the belt. I’m willing to pick up the workload for free in exchange for an extended amount of time once you feel I am strong enough. I’m just really looking for experience and possibly a letter of recommendation from you

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