It can be a challenging task to maintain accuracy in gastroenterology medical billing and coding. High level of knowledge and precision is required to ensure strong financial health of a gastroenterology practice. Similar to other specialty-specific codes, gastroenterology codes have also been subject to revisions annually. Various new CPT codes have been added in these […]
Boosting Revenues and Avoiding Audits by Streamlining your Gastroenterology Medical Billing Process
Gastroenterology medical practices have evolved exponentially in the past decade due to changing patient demography. With more and more procedures and treatments coming under the purview of Gastroenterology treatments due to medical advancements, coding changes are also happening at frequent intervals. Given the high frequency of changes, gastroenterology medical billing is also attracting a lot […]
How to Make Billing and Payments Efficient in your Gastroenterology Practice
Gastroenterology is a focused and specialized area of medical care that has been gaining prominence over the past few years. With unprecedented population growth and dramatic changes in lifestyle, Gastroenterology has seen a steady rise in patient inflow. In addition to that, groundbreaking advancements in medical equipments and techniques have broadened the scope of gastroenterology. […]
The Significance of HIPAA Compliant Medical Billing Services for Gastroenterologists
Gastroenterologists trade patient-centric information for a variety of purposes, and Medical Billing is one of them. While physicians clinical notes on gastroenterology procedures are made use of by coding and billing staff, there may be possibility, intentionally or accidentally, that vital patient-centric information being exposed to security and privacy breach in the form of theft […]
Demand for Gastroenterology Services to Impact Medical Billing in Clinics and Hospitals?
The consistent rise in demand for Gastroenterology services has really been a boon for clinics and hospitals. But the growth has been so overwhelming that it started affecting their reimbursements in a big way. While practitioners have generally been preoccupied with clinical duties, their medical billing staff have found the voluminous growth simply hard to […]
How to Insure Your Practice against an Avalanche of Gastroenterology Coding Challenges?
Gastroenterology codes, like other specialty-specific codes, have regularly been subject annual revisions. During the course of such revisions, many new CPT codes have been added corresponding to modifications in gastroenterology procedures while a few irrelevant codes have been taken off. As a result, physicians’ billing offices or coding staff have had to adapt themselves subtly […]
Spiraling Cost of Gastroenterology Services to Warrant Billing Partner!
Despite Gastroenterology being one of the high-yielding practices, practitioners’ revenues from reimbursements continue to remain below par. This can be a distressing trend considering the spiraling cost of administering gastroenterology services. While clinical and technological advancements have brought in unimaginable precision to care, billing requirements too have become more demanding than ever before. As a […]