Our blog posts have enlightened and educated readers on countless aspects of medical billing and coding as well as insurance eligibility verification, while providing detailed instructions on various ICD-10 and CPT codes. We have also shed insight on new insurance policies, and given doctors and other healthcare professionals a helping hand in understanding the procedural aspects of insurance and billing so they can focus on their core task of treating patients.
Before we embark on a New Year and a new decade, here’s look back at our top 10 blog posts of 2019:
Colectomy is a complex procedure involving a range of individual procedure codes. We break down the different surgical procedures involved and various conditions that require colectomy to be performed. Finally, we list in detail the different codes you need to consider and also the right approach to coding.
We have covered medical codes for innovative and subtle procedures as well, such as Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) biopsy. With FNA codes having been updated recently, we thought it appropriate to post an infographic to make matters clearer to our readers.
This blog talks about navigating code and guideline revisions for procedures such as epidural injections as well as nerve root blocks. Apart from applying the appropriate CPT codes, pain management physicians also need to document the necessity of performing these services in order to avoid claim denials.
You can read about coding for biopsy excision and also important aspects of documentation such as mentioning whether a lesion is malignant or benign, where the lesion is located, and also the diameter of the excised lesion.
We’ve dealt with the complex aspect of knee surgery in this blog on arthroscopic knee surgery. Coding knee surgery is complex because of the fact that modifier usage, payer guidelines and varying definitions need to be understood better. We simplify all that for you.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has updated the CPT code set for 2020. Come to think of it, there are 394 code changes. Only 248 of them are new codes. The rest are code deletions and revisions. Correct reimbursement and coding require you to figure out these changes. It can be overwhelming but we’ve explained the highlights and their implications in this blog.
The flu season made it appropriate for us to write about the CPT codes on the influenza vaccine. The annual flu vaccine is recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for protecting against flu. We have highlighted the various CPT codes for administering the flu vaccine.
As dental insurance reimbursement rates keep changing along with the rules and regulations, dental billing keeps getting complex. Since orthodontic treatment sometimes extends for multiple plan years, reimbursement requires efficient billing. We detail the procedures involved along with special guidelines.
Anesthesia billing and coding has to be done with minute attention to detail to ensure accuracy of the codes used. Any errors can cause anesthesia groups to be the target of fraud detection efforts of the government. January 1, 2019 saw the introduction of many updates and changes and we have strived to clear the confusion and provide details regarding those updates.
Hypertension (HTN) is a condition affecting a large number of Americans. Also called high blood pressure (HBP), the condition affects nearly half of American adults. That means there is a greater possibility of people visiting your practice with this condition. So, a guide on ICD-10 documentation for hypertension can prove to be useful.
Feel free to check out our blog section to get more insight into billing and coding for a range of medical conditions as well as other aspects such as documentation and insurance eligibility verification.
Rajeev Rajagopal, the President of OSI, has a wealth of experience as a healthcare business consultant in the United States. He has a keen understanding of current medical billing and coding standards.