Healthcare providers face different types of medical record audits and with the changing focus and increasing expectations of payers, advanced preparation is crucial for success. Audits can be...
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Medical Coding for Transitional Care Management Services – Provider – Patient Requirements
TCM or Transitional Care Management services are provided to enable patients to transition successfully from a hospital stay back to a community setting. They are provided for an established or new...
Medicare Part B Now Covers Really Expensive Drugs
Medical billing responsibilities have become more extensive, with more medicines being covered by Medicare. Medicare Part B Patients would be glad to know that Medicare Part B now covers some pretty...
ICD-10-CM – Overview, Significance and Top Diagnostic Codes
As the ICD-10 medical coding system officially went live on October 1, all HIPAA covered healthcare settings are required to replace ICD-9-CM codes with ICD-10-CM codes on their claims (date of...
Myocardial Infarctions – ICD-10 Medical Coding and Documentation
Myocardial infarction (MI) refers to heart attack, which occurs when a portion of the heart is deprived of oxygen as a result of the blockage of a coronary artery. The most common cause for this...
Physicians Getting Prepared for the New ICD-10 Medical Coding System
The ICD-10 medical coding is getting implemented today and implementation date is here and now there is no way of avoiding it. From today on physicians and hospitals across the country will have to...
How to Welcome ICD-10 Medical Coding
The long awaited ICD-10 Implementation has now arrived. The coding aspect of any practice is usually resource sapping, and that's because there is a significant amount of effort and attention to...
Physicians Not Yet Ready for the ICD-10 Transition, WEDI Survey Reveals
Last year, we discussed the October 2013 ICD-10 Readiness Survey by the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) and found that the healthcare industry was not prepared for ICD-10...
Google’s Patient-Doctor Video Chat Service to Promote Virtual Office Visits
Google appears to be testing a service that connects patients with doctors over a video chat, opening new possibilities for virtual office visits or e-visits. According to the Verge report, this...
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