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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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10 Common Mistakes Managing Emergency Department Reimbursement and Cash Flow
A list of 10 Common Mistakes Managing Emergency Dept Reimbursement and Cash Flow, and what you can do to fix them
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.
2009 ICD-9 Updates here!
Update: See: 2012 ICD9 Code Updates
We have reviewed all of the ICD-9 2009 updates, and compiled a summarized list of all of the changes that need to made in order for you to be compliant.
Claims submitted with invalid/deleted ICD-9 codes for service dates on or after October 1, 2008 will be rejected.
You can view the online slideshow and/or download the PowerPoint by filling out …
Lack of ongoing education for all of your Providers and Staff
The 10th common mistake that will often affect revenue is an ongoing lack of education for all of your Providers and Staff. They should each receive focused instruction as a direct result of ongoing and consistent chart reviews.
Not conducting chart reviews on a regular and consistent basis
The 8th common mistake in managing cash flow is due to the lack of chart reviews / audits.
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 …
Overlooking to regularly review and update all of your documentation templates
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The 4th common mistake occurs when your documentation templates are no longer capturing all services appropriately.
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.
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
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 clients with a detailed summary that identifies key coding issues such as invalid, deleted or revised codes and descriptive changes. A customized Action Plan is developed and implemented over the life of the engagement.
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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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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.
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