If you refer to the ICD-10 manual, you will find that the 14,000 ICD-9 codes have exploded into around 68,000 ICD-10 codes. Though the increase in the number of medical codes is bound to make the medical coding process more accurate, some consider the specificity of...
Anesthesia coding is a specialized branch that requires an understanding of the intricacies involved in relevant coding guidelines to provide accurate charge capture. Unlike other medical specialties for which coding is based on the procedure performed, anesthesia...
The Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) is set of norms employed by most of the healthcare plans in the US for measuring performance in relation to service and care. HEDIS was created by the NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) and is...
Timely and proper reimbursement is crucial to the survival of your practice. If you are doing your medical coding on your own, it’s likely that one of the reasons for your falling revenues is undercoding. It could be the fear of regulatory agency audits and the...
The findings mean that attempts to improve the efficiency of the claims process have been fruitful Physicians noticed an overall soar in the percentage of insurance claims that were reimbursed correctly last year and a fall in the degree of hassles associated with...
