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New 2012 ICD-9 Code Updates

The New, Revised and Invalid ICD-9-CM codes take effect October 1, 2011. Each year, BDA provides tools to assist physicians and organizations with the ICD-9 code changes. We’ve put together a Power Point presentation that goes over these changes for you. Take advantage of these resources now so the ICD-9 changes will cause no delay in your payment for services.

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.

Going Green: EMRs = Less Paper

One way the medical world can lead is through the development and implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR)/electronic health record (EHR), which can reduce costs and lower your carbon footprint.

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.

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.

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.

Items to Consider before Purchasing an EMR

Do you want to improve patient care or efficiency of the office?
Cost concerns?
EMR’s are difficult to implement
1. You will need a project team
2. Does this team understand the day to day patient flow
3. E/M guidelines
4. Visit templates

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 …

Nuances Audio CD Series

We’ve created our very own series of educational Audio CD’s recorded and produced by BDA for our clients and friends.
We would love to send you a copy of one or all of our programs.

The Nuances of Occupational Health
The Nuances of Emergency Medicine
The Nuances of Urgent Care

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