As an experienced medical billing company focused on helping physicians to maximize patient insurance reimbursements as they strive to provide quality care, we closely track developments in the health insurance scenario. Roughly 20 million people got coverage through...
Healthcare providers and medical coding companies had a one-year grace period for ICD-10-coded medical claims. According to a recent report in Physicians Practice, claims statistics showed improvement in Q4 2016 after the end of the ICD-10 grace period in October...
Starting 2017, physical therapy medical coding involves three new evaluation codes and a new reevaluation code. The evaluation codes introduced by the final CMS physician fee schedule replace code 97001 and reflect three levels of patient presentation: 97161 –...
CMS had granted healthcare providers, hospitals and medical coding companies a one-year grace period for ICD-10-coded medical claims. An ICD-10 coding flexibility policy was implemented last year specifically for the claims submitted to Medicare and Medicaid. As this...
The transition to ICD-10 that took effect in October 2015 is progressing. Physician practices are submitting claims with the new codes quite successfully and getting reimbursed by insurers, many with the help of professional medical billing and coding companies....
