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Invalid 2011 ICD-9 Updates
Currently, there are no deleted ICD-9 codes for 2011. An invalid ICD-9 2011 code is defined as a code that has been deemed invalid as of September 30, 2010.
Why BDA? 10 Reasons
10 Benefits from partnering with Bill Dunbar and Associates
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.
Affiliates
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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, …
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 …
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.
Facility Coding- How Effective is Your Point System?
As there is currently no national standard for point systems, hospitals at this point are required to develop and follow their own system for assigning the ED levels. When you do this, be sure that there are written guidelines with criteria for coding each of the five levels of ED codes, as well as for critical care.
Practice Management Software
Practice management software (PMS) is a category of software that deals with the day-to-day operations of a medical practice.
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 …
Execute Revenue Capture Plan
Once you have engaged our services, we will present a Comprehensive Revenue System Review along with a Client Specific Results-Oriented Action Plan and Timeline. This may include:
Documentation Assistance in the areas of E/M and overall CPT coding
Targeted on-site training
Development/Provision of Forms and Templates (Superbills, EMR templates, etc.)
Annual Chargemaster and Fee Ticket Recommendations
Assessment of Current Reimbursement Issues through EOB and CMS 1500 Review
In addition, we will …
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Our Process
Analyze Data
We conduct a preliminary analysis your existing documentation and coding processes.
We provide a simple request form that we call a Preliminary Analysis, which describes exactly what we require to perform your analysis.
Identify Opportunities
During the Prelim Results presentation, specific areas will be discussed.
Execute Plan
Once you have engaged our services, we will present a Comprehensive Revenue System Review along with a Client Specific Results-Oriented Action …
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 utilizes several proprietary national fee databases with Geozip specific information, so that it can conduct a comprehensive assessment of your current fee profile.
BDA provides its services to clients of varying medical specialties located throughout the United States. By comparing your revenue capture performance against the norm in your specialty, it can offer additional tools for improvement.
Our Process
BDA helps healthcare professionals increase their revenue capture by improving the accuracy of their clinical documentation, coding, billing, and reimbursement.
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