Overview Outsource Strategies International (OSI) is a Managed Outsource Solutions company and a comprehensive medical services outsourcing provider enabling physician practices to perform more...
Large Volumes of DME Authorizations Handled Cost-effectively
Overview Outsource Strategies International (OSI) offers DME (Durable Medical Equipment) authorizations. Our client, Access Mediquip from Lake Mary, Florida, specializes in providing implantable and...
Coding of Musculoskeletal Disease Treatment under ICD-10
Since there are several changes and expansion introduced to the musculoskeletal code system in ICD-10, it will be a real challenge to code for musculoskeletal disease treatment under the new coding...
More Hospitals Choose Outsourcing to Improve Clinical Documentation for ICD-10
According to a survey of 650 hospital technology and physician leaders published in July 2014 by Black Book, hospitals are increasingly undertaking clinical documentation improvement initiatives in...
Telehealth gets a Boost in 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has added seven new payment codes in their 2015 physician fee schedule for telehealth services. This is a big breakthrough for the telehealth service...
Chiropractic Care for Headaches – Assigning Diagnosis Codes
As the number of people seeking chiropractic care for headaches is increasing, chiropractic practices need to have a clear understanding about assigning appropriate diagnosis codes for various types...
2015 CPT Coding Update for Radiation Therapy
This August, the American Medical Association (AMA) released the 2015 CPT coding update going to be effective from January 1, 2015 with relevant changes to radiation oncology. According to the...
How Obamacare Increases the Need for Medical Coding Specialists
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or Obamacare was implemented on January 1, 2014 and this legislation is bound to increase the need for medical coding specialists. The major objectives of this...
2015 CPT Update for Conventional Radiation Therapy
This August, the American Medical Association (AMA) released the CPT code changes that are going to be effective from January 1, 2015, with significant changes to radiation oncology. Apart from new...