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Performance Decline for U.S. Healthcare Organizations during COVID-19

THE current COVID-19 pandemic situation is creating uncertainty for health systems; this may appear to be taking hits on both the physician practice and hospital sides of their business. According to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from consulting firm Kaufman Hall, the median hospital operating margin index stands well below CY 2019 performance at […]

Tips for Anesthesia Billing

Billing for anesthesia services is complicated and it requires skilled staff who can do error-free medical billing. Medical billers should have a basic understanding of how anesthesia is administered, and all the ins and outs of payer requirements to avoid claim rejections. Anesthesia billing needs something of all from the billing team member all the […]

Why pediatricians require Medical Billing Services?

Pediatricians help to stay children healthy and safe, which is not any small feat. A pediatrics practice is different from other sorts of medical practice offices in several ways. These differences make medical billing services even more helpful and beneficial for pediatrics offices than for other sorts of practices. Pediatricians spend more time with patients Pediatricians tend to spend more time with each […]

Use these 3 techniques for effective medical billing process

Medical billing and coding are a vital aspect of your practice operations, but for small and medium-size independent practices, it’s often one of the most overlooked aspects. There can be a situation that you might be seeing the payment denials with the same or more patients, or you are unable to reimburse on a significant […]

11 new services to the Medicare telehealth services

CMS updated the Medicare telehealth services list on Oct 14 with 11 new services to qualifying the services for Medicare reimbursement through the coronavirus pandemic emergency. The added new telehealth services cover some cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation services, in addition to certain neurostimulator analysis and programming services. These services added to the Medicare telehealth list […]

Importance of Artificial Intelligence in Eye Care (Part 2)

How AI can change eye care? In the near future, AI will play an increasingly helpful role in many points within the chain of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of ophthalmic disease. One of the most important roles of AI would be screening for ophthalmic diseases. As an example, not all patients who suspect new visual distortion on an Amsler grid may have to be […]

Importance of Artificial Intelligence in Eye Care (Part 1)

In the near future, eye care providers will have devices that, give a picture of a patient’s retina, can tell us the detailed diagnosis at the touch of a button. AI will play an increasingly significant role in the way healthcare providers look after their patients within the clinic. There’s real and imminent potential for […]

Uninsured COVID-19 Patients with Limited Reimbursement

According to a recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a program intended to balance the costs of uninsured COVID-19 patients during the coronavirus emergency has paid out limited reimbursement to providers. The Trump Administration announced the COVID-19 treatment reimbursement program for uninsured patients in April 2020. The program has been in place from […]

Use of Modifiers 54, 55, and 56

Using Modifiers, the service or procedure can be altered by some specific conditions but has not been changed in definition or code. The intention of modifiers is to give more specific information about a specific procedure or service that is not already contained in the code definition itself. MBC is sharing more information on Use […]

COVID-19 – CPT Codes for Multi-Virus Tests

Oct 7, 2020, the American Medical Association (AMA) published an update to the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set that includes new code additions and editorial revisions for reporting medical services impacted by the public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These newly added CPT codes allow providers to report nucleic acid assays that allow […]

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