Denial management is essential to improve your chiropractic practice's revenue growth. Denial management involves assessing the root cause of denials and using a proactive approach to ensure proper submission. Some of the major reasons for chiropractic claim denials...
5 Strategies to Succeed with Risk Adjustment
Under value-based care, providers are reimbursed for better care, not more care. Patients with chronic conditions require more intensive care than patients who are generally healthy. Risk adjustment is an important element of medical billing which focuses on ensuring...
What are the CPT Coding Changes impacting General Surgery in 2023?
General surgery comprises a wide range of surgical procedures involving the gastrointestinal tract, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, breast, skin, soft tissue, and endocrine system. This medical speciality includes many sub-specialties that focus on specific areas or...
ICD-10 Codes for Shoulder Dislocation
Shoulder dislocation happens when the humerus, the top of the upper arm bone, partially or fully moves out of the glenoid, the socket bone of the shoulder. As the shoulder joint is the most mobile joint in the human body, it accounts for about 50 percent of all joint...
How Does Medical Coding Work?
Medical coding is a crucial step in any medical practice's insurance billing process. Medical codes help the insurance companies identify what kinds of services or treatments were given during any type of doctor visit. Medical coders report a patient's condition, the...
How to Bill and Code for Meningitis
Meningitis is inflammation of the meninges - the fluid and membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord. There are different types of meningitis such as viral, bacterial, chemical and fungal. Viral meningitis is the most common type followed by bacterial...
How to Bill and Code for Liver Cirrhosis
A progressive condition that develops over many years, liver cirrhosis results in scarring (fibrosis) of the liver that is caused by long-term liver damage. The scarring of the liver tissues can affect blood flow through the liver, causing liver dysfunction. Also...
What Chiropractors Should Know about Billing CPT Code 97140
Chiropractors use different types of joint and spine manipulations to help ease body pain. They provide manual therapy to manipulate and massage the spine, correct structural misalignments, and reduce pain and discomfort. A chiropractic billing company can help...
What are the ICD-10 Codes for Muscular Dystrophy?
Muscular dystrophy is a group of diseases that causes severe progressive damage, weakness and loss of muscle mass over time. The damage and weakness in muscle mass may occur due to a lack of protein (called dystrophin) which is essential for typical muscle function....
Coding Kidney-related Illnesses
Kidney-related illnesses can interfere with the body's capacity to clean the blood, filter extra water out of blood, and regulate blood pressure. Any injury to your kidneys can lead to a build-up of waste and fluid, which can cause edema, nausea, weakness, restless...