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Are You Certain That Your Hospital Is Correctly Coding For Every Emergency Care Procedure And Service?

Bill — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:42:16 +0000

Comparing your hospital’s E/M distribution with CMS’ national distribution will help you assess the accuracy of your hospital’s E.D. visit code assignment. CMS has indicated that the distribution of E.D. E/M codes should reflect a normal bell curve. In addition to the complex issues to documenting and coding E.D. E/M levels, there are complex coding rules surrounding the high volume Hydration, Injection and Infusion codes. CPT Code Description …

10 Common Mistakes Managing Emergency Department Reimbursement and Cash Flow

Bill — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:40:20 +0000

A list of 10 Common Mistakes Managing Emergency Dept Reimbursement and Cash Flow, and what you can do to fix them

Failing to Compare Providers Coding against a National Benchmark.

Bill — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 13:23:25 +0000

The 9^th common mistake that can impact reimbursement can occur when your provider does not know where he/she falls on a National E/M Benchmark Bell Curve.

New CPT Code Updates 2009

Bill — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:13:42 +0000

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, …

Health Care

Bill — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:15:44 +0000

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 …

Medical Abbreviations and prefix/suffix medical terms

Bill — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:57:19 +0000

List of commonly used medical and financial acronyms and abbreviations.

ICD – International Classification of Diseases

Bill — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:23:36 +0000

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

Bill — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:28:50 +0000

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.

Compare Practice Revenue Performance Against National Benchmarks

Bill — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:49:37 +0000

Are you better off this year compared to this time last year? What, exactly, are you measuring to be sure that you are capturing all of the reimbursement you are entitled to? Compare your practice revenue performance with our National Benchmarks from your medical specialty, and get the detailed stats! Compare Practice Revenue Performance Against National Benchmarks originally appeared on Bill Dunbar and Associates.