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By ordering your free Conference Packet now, you won’t have to worry with picking one up from our booth at the MGMA 2010 Annual Conference and getting it back to your office. Please take 29 seconds to answer the questions below, provide your mailing address, and we’ll ship your Conference Packet on the next business day!
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By ordering your free Conference Packet now, you won’t have to worry with picking one up from our booth at the HFMA 2011 Annual Conference and getting it back to your office. Get yours while they last.
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BDA Affiliate Program (BDAAP)
The BDA Affiliate Program allows you to be compensated by simply qualifying and introducing your network of healthcare contacts to BDA. Initial exposure typically occurs by referring your qualified leads to our introductory website. Your referrals will be given special access via a link that is unique to you, thus insuring your compensation when they decide to become a client.
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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 …
Health Care
Health care, or healthcare, is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions. Health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations.[1] The organised provision of such services may …
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.
NAOHP – National Association of Occupational Health Professionals
The N.A.O.H.P. supports provider-based occupational health programs and professionals in the achievement of the highest quality services, thereby advancing the association to the benefit of the national workforce and the public health country. The N.A.O.H.P. will seek to assist providers in establishing partnership relationships with employers and their workforces to ensure genuine healthcare cost management and individual health maintenance.
UCAOA – Urgent Care Association of America
The Urgent Care Association of America (UCAOA) was founded in 2004 by Urgent Care leaders to fill a need in the professional field for an association that existed not only to encourage and facilitate the development and success of urgent care centers, physicians and the industry, but to do so as a representative of its members.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website, Title I of HIPAA protects health insurance coverage for workers and their families when they change or lose their jobs. Title II of HIPAA, known as the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the establishment of national standards for …
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.
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 …
BDA shares its 20+ years experience of documentation and coding with its clients, which often results in increased revenue, improved compliance, and continued growth.
BDA performs a preliminary analysis of each prospective client's practice by gathering a random sampling of three simple reports; this includes the Chargemaster, Chargeticket/Superbill, and the Fee Profile.
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