Compliance with Medicare is one of the most important challenges associated with medical billing. Using the right Medicare modifiers is essential for timely and accurate reimbursement. When submitting claims to Medicare it is necessary to show whether the patient was...
Among the measures taken by Medicare to save money spent unnecessarily was its 2008 policy to stop paying hospitals extra to treat certain hospital acquired preventable conditions including UTIs or urinary tract infections, acquired after bladder catheters are placed....
Modifier 59 is a Level I CPT code used to report that a particular procedural service was carried out. It should typically be applied to the secondary code in a pair of codes and not added to Evaluation & Management Codes. If you use this code correctly for...
Medicare appears to be the more badly hit because of increasing health insurance expenses An aging populace and a very slowly recovering economy are taking their toll on the long-term condition of Medicare and Social Security, the United States’ government’s biggest...
Any hospital or clinic would want to reduce office expenses, speed up the rate of reimbursement, do away with claim denials, limit aged receivables and improve cash flow and profit. That’s why you’ll find a lot of them considering medical billing outsourcing to make...
