Medicare's new bundled payment policy saves millions of dollars annually for joint replacements - without impacting patient care, according to a new study. Traditionally, hospitals are paid separately for the many components of care and rehabilitation. Under the...
New Epidural Injection Codes to Improve Pain Management Reimbursement in 2017
Starting January 1, 2017, there are eight new epidural injection CPT codes which replace codes 62310-62311 and 62318-62319. When it comes to pain management billing, knowledge of the new codes and CPT instructions is crucial for compliance and appropriate and timely...
Maximize Reimbursement for Care Coordination Services
Though physicians spend a lot of time counseling patients, they usually tend to overlook the reimbursement opportunity for this service. According to CPT guidelines, medical billing and coding for evaluation and management (E&M) services revolves around 7...
New Study: Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain could be Reversed
A large proportion of the medical billing and coding work for primary care physicians, pain management specialists and neurologists relate to services provided for patients with diabetic neuropathy. Experts say that diabetic neuropathy occurs due to high levels of...
Avoid the Perils of Undercoding with Medical Billing Services
Undercoding is as much a problem as overcoding and occurs when the CPT and HCPCS codes billed do not indicate the full scope of the work performed by the physician or facility. In addition to lost revenue, undercoding is likely to make you a target for audits....
Proactive Strategies to Optimize Medical Coding and Billing in 2017
As you wrap up an eventful 2016, you need to prepare your medical practice for the changes in store for 2017. For one, there will be 75,625 ICD-10-PCS codes for the fiscal year (FY) 2017, of which 3,651 are new codes and 487 are revised. There are also many CPT coding...
Is there a Bias against Obese Patients?
Do obese patients face discrimination in the physician’s office? Sadly, studies and surveys seem to say yes, they do. As a medical billing company, we provide a large volume of medical coding services for healthcare providers who specialize in treating patients who...
Medicare’s New Health Insurance Market Place Rules – Impact on Risk Adjustment/HCC Coding
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare (CMS) has released new health insurance market place rules which will take effect from January 17, 2017. Referred to as the “payment notice,” the rule is an annual CMS omnibus rule that covers all the major changes that CMS plans...
Top New Year Resolutions for Physicians
As 2017 rolls in, healthcare providers and medical billing and coding companies should prepare for the changes ahead. Physicians need to take steps to enhance care delivery as well as revenue cycle management. Here are some New Year resolutions to help physicians plan...
Exclusion of CRNAs from New VA Policy could Impact Anesthesia Medical Billing
Anesthesia reimbursement comes with unique challenges, as experienced medical billing and coding companies know. A recent Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) ruling puts the spotlight on the providers of anesthesia services and can also affect CRNA medical billing....