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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.
Posted in: BDA Staff, CPT Coding, Emergency Medicine, ICD Coding, Occupational Health, Physician's Practice, Urgent Care, Whitepapers
Tagged: 2010 icd, 2010 ICD-9 Quick Reference, Family Practice, ICD Coding, icd-9, icd-9-cm, icd9, ICD9 Codes, MousePad
Occupational Medicine ICD-9-CM Quick Reference
We’ve created this Occupational Medicine Lower Back & Other ICD9 Quick Reference in response to Occupational Medicine coding professionals who want to maximize their speed and efficiency. Fill out the request form to receive a BDA mouse pad and our newest 2010 Occupational Medicine ICD-9 Quick Reference Insert.
Posted in: BDA Staff, CPT Coding, Emergency Medicine, ICD Coding, Occupational Health, Physician's Practice, Urgent Care, Whitepapers
Tagged: 2010 icd, 2010 ICD-9 Quick Reference, ICD Coding, icd-9, icd-9-cm, icd9, ICD9 Codes, Lower Back, MousePad, Occupational Health, Occupational Medicine
2010 ICD-9 Quick Reference for Emergency Departments
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.
Posted in: BDA Staff, CPT Coding, Emergency Medicine, ICD Coding, Occupational Health, Physician's Practice, Urgent Care, Whitepapers
Tagged: 2010 icd, emergency department, ICD Coding, icd-9, icd-9-cm, icd9, ICD9 Codes, MousePad
Invalid ICD-9 Codes for 2010
The invalid codes are the ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes that are invalid after September 30th, 2009. These codes must be at a higher level of specificity to be valid codes as of October 1, 2009
Posted in: CPT Coding, Emergency Medicine, ICD Coding, Occupational Health, Physician's Practice, Urgent Care, Whitepapers
Tagged: 2010 icd9, ICD Coding, icd-9, icd-9 codes, icd-9 coding, icd-9-cm, icd9, invalid icd9, invalid icd9 codes
RSS | Published September 21, 2009
New ICD-9-CM 2010 Code Updates
The New, Revised and Invalid ICD-9 codes take effect October 1, 2009. 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. Neglecting to update your ICD-9 codes annually could delay claims and payments. Take advantage of these resources now so the ICD-9 changes will cause no delay in your payment for services.
Posted in: CPT Coding, Emergency Medicine, ICD Coding, Occupational Health, Physician's Practice, Urgent Care, Whitepapers
Tagged: 2010 icd, 2010 icd 9 changes, 2010 icd09, AHA, AHIMA, ama icd 9, CDC, CMS, icd 9 cm coding, icd 9 diagnosis codes, icd 9 medical coding, ICD Coding, icd-9, icd-9 2010, icd-9 codes, icd-9-cm, icd9, NCHS
Failing to Compare Providers Coding against a National Benchmark.
The 9th 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.
Posted in: Emergency Medicine, Whitepapers
Tagged: 10 ED Mistakes, EM level, emergency department, national benchmark, Reimbursement
RSS | Published April 26, 2009
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.
Posted in: Electronic Medical Record, Occupational Health, Physician's Practice, Urgent Care, Whitepapers
Tagged: EHR, Electronic Medical Record, Emergency Medical Record
RSS | Published November 18, 2008
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.
Posted in: BDA Staff, Electronic Medical Record, Emergency Medicine, Occupational Health, Physician's Practice, Urgent Care, Whitepapers
Tagged: Chart Audits, Compliance Audits, Medical Record
RSS | Published October 29, 2008
Choosing and then utilizing the wrong E/M guidelines for your ED
The 6th common mistake for revenue capture is relying solely on your EMR to capture the appropriate E/M Level.
Posted in: Emergency Medicine, Physician's Practice, Whitepapers
Tagged: 10 ED Mistakes, Emergency Management Guidelines
RSS | Published July 21, 2008
Failing to document the length of time used for your time based services
Are you capturing your time based procedure / service codes?
Posted in: Emergency Medicine, Physician's Practice, Whitepapers
Tagged: 10 ED Mistakes, Procedure Codes, Service Codes
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.
Posted in: Emergency Medicine, Physician's Practice, Whitepapers
Tagged: 10 ED Mistakes
EMERGENCY-MEDIC · RSS | Published July 10, 2008
Deaconess Hospital Case Study
As a result of embracing and implementing the BDA program, Deaconess experienced double digit % revenue growth, without a significant increase to its existing patient load.
Posted in: Case Studies, Client Testimonials, Emergency Medicine, Occupational Health, Physician's Practice, Urgent Care, Whitepapers
Tagged: Case Studies, emergency department, Family Care, Hospital, Medical Group, Pain Management, physician coaching
TAL-CASE-STUDY · RSS | Published July 4, 2008
Failing to evaluate and adjust your Point System on a systematic basis
The 2nd most common mistake is that the Facility Point System is not regularly evaluated to capture all services. A point system would be a consistent methodology for assigning an ED Facility Level based on the work performed by the ED staff. An interesting fact is, that to this date, there are no national standards for assignment of hospital Facility Levels.
Posted in: Emergency Medicine, Whitepapers
Tagged: 10 ED Mistakes, Point System
10 Common Mistakes Managing Emergency Dept 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
Posted in: CPT Coding, Electronic Medical Record, Emergency Medicine, Physician's Practice, Whitepapers
Tagged: 10 ED Mistakes, bell curve, Cashe Flow, emergency department, Emergency Medicine, fee ticket, medical billing, medical coding, national benchmark, Reimbursement, superbill
RSS | Published July 1, 2008
E/M level billed by Physician the same as Facility
The #1 Most Common Mistake occurs when your staff believes that the Evaluation and Management [E/M] level billed by the ED Physician must be the same level as that billed by the hospital for the ED Facility.
Posted in: Emergency Medicine, Physician's Practice, Whitepapers
Tagged: 10 ED Mistakes, Evaluation and Management Level
RSS | Published May 31, 2008
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- Family Practice 2010 ICD-9-CM Quick Reference
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- 2010 ICD-9 Quick Reference for Emergency Departments
- Invalid ICD-9 Codes for 2010
- Revised 2010 ICD-9-CM Updates
- New ICD-9-CM 2010 Code Updates
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