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ACEP – American College of Emergency Medicine
The American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP) was founded in 1968 by a small group of physicians who shared a commitment to improving the quality of emergency care.
2009 CPT Codes Update
Looking for the 2010 New, Revised and Invalid ICD-9 codes taking effect October 1, 2009?Get them here.
The AMA recently released the 2009 CPT Code Updates which become effective Jan 1.
You can download the new codes now, for a nominal fee, directly from the AMA Website by clicking here:
https://catalog.ama-assn.org/Catalog/cpt/cpt_home.jsp
Maintaining Accuracy and Compliance in the Medical Record
Why is accuracy and compliance to accepted standards of documentation in the medical record important? The first and most important reason is to provide patients with appropriate care based on details provided in their medical record. This ensures optimal patient care and allows for excellent patient satisfaction. Another reason for ensuring accuracy and compliance in the medical record is to provide governmental agencies, and any other entity accessing the patient’s medical record accurate and complete information. With improved documentation, collections improve, the risk for unfavorable audit results decreases, and efficiencies are increased in the office with both staff and physician co-workers.
CPT – Current Procedural Terminology
The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set is maintained by the American Medical Association through the CPT Editorial Panel. The CPT code set accurately describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among physicians, coders, patients, accreditation organizations, and payers for administrative, financial, and analytical purposes. The current version is the CPT 2009.
There are three …
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) is a set of health care procedure codes based on the American Medical Association’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT). Commonly pronounced Hick-Picks.
The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) was established in 1978 to provide a standardized coding system for describing the specific items and services provided in the delivery of health care. Such coding is necessary for Medicare, Medicaid, …
New CPT Code Updates 2009
Looking for the 2010 New, Revised and Invalid ICD-9 codes taking effect October 1, 2009?Get them here.
The AMA recently released the 2009 CPT Code Updates which become effective Jan 1.
New CPT Code Updates 2009
Contains over 290 New Codes, as compared to just over 240 codes in 2008. There are 17 code additions to the E /M section, 36 additions to the Surgery section, …
Revised CPT Code Updates 2009
The AMA recently released the 2009 CPT Code Updates which become effective Jan 1.
Revised CPT Code Updates 2009
There are over 130 code revisions in this report. The Preventive Medicine Services area was given the additional wording of “appropriate immunization(s)” to the code sets 99381-99386 and 99387-99397.
Over 130 code revisions for 2009.
Most of the revisions occur in the Surgery Section under the sub-sections Repair …
New Category II and III Code Updates 2009
The AMA recently released the 2009 CPT Code Updates which become effective Jan 1.
New Category II and III Code Updates 2009
This report contains over 150 new Category ll Codes, which are supplemental tracking codes that can be used for performance measurements. In addition, there are 13 Category lll Codes that contain a temporary set of codes for emerging technologies, services, and procedures.
Over 150 New Category …
Deleted CPT Code Updates 2009
The AMA recently released the 2009 CPT Code Updates which become effective Jan 1.
There are over 90 codes that need to be deleted by Jan 1, 2009 in order for you to be compliant. Over 70% of the deleted codes occur in the following four sections: E/M, Surgery, Radiology, and Medicine.
Deleted CPT Code Updates 2009
Over 90 Deleted codes.
15 in the Evaluation and Management Section, 11 …
Joyce Ralstin, CPC, CPC-I, CCS-P, PCS PMCC-Certified Instructor
As a Regional Director of Client Services with Bill Dunbar and Associates, (BDA), Joyce Ralstin has 25 years experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to joining BDA, Ms. Ralstin served as Billing and Coding Specialist for a large multi-specialty hospital organization employing over 200 physicians.
Medical Abbreviations and prefix/suffix medical terms
List of commonly used medical and financial acronyms and abbreviations.
ICD – International Classification of Diseases
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD) provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances and external causes of injury or disease. Every health condition can be assigned to a unique category and given a code, up to six characters long. Such categories can include a set of similar diseases.
Electronic Medical Record
An electronic medical record (EMR) is a medical record in digital format.
In health informatics an EMR is considered by some to be one of several types of EHRs (electronic health records), but in general usage EMR and EHR are synonymous.
Terri Scales, CPC, CCS-P
Terri Scales has over 18 years of health care experience with an emphasis on clinic management, coding and insurance billing, and State Specific Workers’ Compensation Regulation and Compliance. She is an experienced individual with a positive, results-oriented approach to documentation, coding, billing, and reimbursement.
Education at Every Level
Once BDA has performed the Complete Analysis of Current Documentation and Coding of your practice, we will implement a client-specific action plan for Education of Providers and Staff that will address your identified opportunites. This training is conducted one-on-one and in group settings, based upon your individual needs and direction.
We train your staff and coach your physicians for improved EM Documentation and Procedural Coding.
All …
About Bill Dunbar and Associates, LLC.
Bill Dunbar founded BDA in 1988. Bill is a former Indiana State Senator and has held positions as a senior executive with Blue Cross of Indiana, American Medical International Corporation, and Columbia HCA.
In 1999, David B. Dann joined Mr. Dunbar as a Member of the LLC. Mr. Dann has a Master in Health Care Administration from the Indiana University School of Medicine. He …
BDA helps healthcare professionals increase their revenue capture by improving the accuracy of their clinical documentation, coding, billing, and reimbursement.
BDA will conduct one-on-one and group sessions with your providers and support staff where we will emphasize the necessity of appropriate documentation needed to support Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services Coding, and overall medical coding. A variety of training tools are utilized for easy future reference.
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BDA helps healthcare professionals increase their revenue capture by improving the accuracy of their clinical documentation, coding, billing, and reimbursement.
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BDA will conduct one-on-one and group sessions with your providers and support staff where we will emphasize the necessity of appropriate documentation needed to support Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services Coding, and overall medical coding. A variety of training tools are utilized for easy future reference.
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