May 2016

30 May Electronic Records and Medical Billing Audits

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In the past 15 years, the medical profession has turned to using laptops and tablets to record their interactions with patients. Software has been developed that combines SOAP notes, medical coding, and billing into a form that serves physician, coders and billers, payers, and patients. Why...

30 May Medical Coding and Billing Mistakes vs. Fraud

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Medical coding and billing mistakes can hurt your practice in many ways. They can interrupt your cash flow, especially if a group of claims has been submitted to a payer and each contains the same or similar mistakes. They can also gobble up time, as...

30 May The Benefits and Necessity of ICD- 10

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There was a lot of debate for years as to whether or not ICD- 9, which was comprised of approximately 14,000 codes, had to be replaced by a new system. Ultimately, over the course of more than a decade, IDC- 10, the new coding system,...

30 May SOAP Notes and Efficient Medical Coding and Billing

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Dr. Lawrence Weed developed SOAP notes in the 1960s at the University of Vermont. SOAP is an acronym for Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan, and these categories relate to the manner in which a doctor, nurse, or other medical professionals record their meetings, assessments, and...

30 May Medical Coding and Billing: Process and Follow-Through

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With medical billing and coding, it’s important that those engaged in the endeavor focus on developing a logical process, which involves various checks and follow- through. Doing so will go a long way to ensuring success the first time that a claim is submitted. Not doing...