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Top 5 Ways Your Healthcare Organization Benefits from Outsourcing Medical Coding

Boost Efficiency: Top 7 Ways Outsourcing Medical Coding Benefits Your Healthcare Organization for 2024

Medical coding plays a crucial role in managing the administrative aspects of your organization. It’s evident that without precise medical coding, obtaining reimbursement from insurance companies and third-party entities becomes a challenge. Both under coding and over coding can lead to revenue losses for your organization. While there are avenues for appeals in case of […]
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Check Out All the New Codes for Reporting Services

Don’t assume the codes you’ve been using to report drugs and biologicals still apply. The January 2023 update to the HCPCS Level II code file from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) includes 184 new codes for reporting services and supplies. Approximately 36 of the new codes were created to separately identify products […]
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How To Improve The EHR And Make It More End-User-Friendly

Erica Remer, MD, CCDS, a Member Board of Directors of American College of Physician Advisors, have been talking about improving the electronic medical record and making it more end-user-friendly. Today, she grouses about documentation in general. Her husband, who is a radiologist, and she were commiserating at how awful and uninformative provider documentation has become […]
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Resolve Initial vs. Subsequent Encounter Misconceptions

End the sequela struggle for when to include a 7th character with this primer. ICD-10-CM codes aren’t just for coding; they’re also used for payments, statistics, and other health information management activities. Therefore, some codes are designed to meet certain episode of care requirements that translate into costs. For example, a code describing an acute […]
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2021 E/M Guidelines FAQ – December

  Ever since the release of the new 2021 evaluation and management (E/M) guidelines for office and other outpatient services, AAPC has been conducting numerous trainings through webinars, virtual workshops, conference sessions, online courses, and multiple articles in Healthcare Business Monthly and the Knowledge Center blog. In the May issue we started to answer your […]
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