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Family Practice 2010 ICD-9-CM Quick Reference

We’ve created this ICD-9 Quick Reference Mouse Pad in response to Emergency Department coding professionals who want to maximize their speed and efficiency. Fill out the request form below to receive a BDA mouse pad and our newest 2010 ICD-9 Quick Reference Insert.

Get Your Free ICD-9 2010 Mouse Pads

We’ve created these 2010 ICD-9 Reference Mouse Pads in response to coding professionals (and their teams) who want to maximize their speed and efficiency, while maintaining or even improving accuracy!
Now Available in 3-Packs for the Following Specialties:
Family Practice - Emergency Department - Occ. Health

Please complete the brief survey below and order the 3-pack of your choice.

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.

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 …

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 …

Pros and Cons to EMR

The Pros and Cons of EMR.. It seems that it was not too long ago when we were all told how new technologies like cell phones, voice mail, and email would make our lives less complicated!

Cheryl L. Carr, COO- Chief Operating Officer

Cheryl Carr began her career in the healthcare industry over 23 years ago as an x-ray technician in an Urgent Care/Occupational Medicine facility. She earned a fast-track promotion into Regional Director of eleven medical practice sites in seven different states with a national occupational health provider.

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.

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.

Janelle Frey, RHIT, CPC, CCS-P

Janelle Frey has over 20 years of health care experience with an emphasis on physician coding, documentation, billing and practice management. Janelle has worked as a Hospital Coding Specialist, a Physician Services Operations Coordinator, and as a Billing and Insurance Director.

The Coding Connection

The Coding Connection is an exclusive resource developed for all BDA clients with the primary purpose to provide you and your staff, with total access to timely and accurate information and recommendations to your coding questions, fees by geozip, etc..
You may contact us by any of the following:

Phone our office at 317.247.8014 with your question and you will be referred to your Regional Director (RD) …

HL7 Standards

Hospitals and other healthcare provider organizations typically have many different computer systems used for everything from billing records to patient tracking. All of these systems should communicate with each other (or “interface”) when they receive new information but not all do so.

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.

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 …

Analyze Data

We conduct a Preliminary Analysis of your existing documentation and coding processes.

We improve the accuracy of your practice’s revenue management program by updating four key components:

The Chargeticket / Superbill
The Chargemaster
The Fee Profile
Your Evaluation/Management (E/M) levels of service

We provide a simple request form that we call a Preliminary Analysis, which describes exactly what we require to perform your analysis. The review will address a variety of …

Medical Coding, Documentation, Billing, Reimbursement

Bill Dunbar and Associates, LLC. (BDA) provides revenue management consulting services with an emphasis on medical documentation, coding, and reimbursement. Bill Dunbar and Associates, LLC. has a proven track record of success in improving the overall reimbursement process of its clients.
BDA clients see an average of 12 to 20+ percent increase in net revenue per patient visit. The average length of service to our clients …

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BDA utilizes several proprietary national fee databases with Geozip specific information, so that it can conduct a comprehensive assessment of your current fee profile.

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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.