Receiving accurate insurance reimbursement for delivered services is always been a challenge for healthcare providers. Practice owners spend most of the time and energy on doing administrative tasks of medical billing to receive sufficient insurance reimbursements to cover overhead expenses and provide quality care. But often they make this task even harder by doing sloppy […]
In the Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) for 2022 issued on November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added five new CPT codes in the categories of Chronic Care Management (CCM) and Principal Care Management (PCM) and increased reimbursement for already existing codes in the same categories. These codes are […]
Challenges in Securing Reimbursements For any practice owner, submitting error-free claims and securing accurate insurance reimbursements is the most important and at the same time most challenging task. Things even get worse due to sloppy billing and coding mistakes practices. As per CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), Medicare, claims worth $6.25 billion in […]
Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) is a health care delivery method that benefits patients, providers, caregivers, and the healthcare system as a whole, by leveraging technology advances to gather patient data, outside of traditional health care delivery settings. From increasing access to virtual care, increased patient-provider communication opportunities, and improved patient involvement in self-management to reducing […]
Orthopedic surgeons are increasingly incorporating physical and occupational therapy services into their practices. In-house billers, who may be inexperienced with the new services, terminology, and associated CPT codes, may be unsure about billing for therapy care. MedicalBillersandCoders (MBC) is a leading medical billing company providing complete revenue cycle services. We keep on sharing billing and […]
The physician or other qualified healthcare professional are using CPT codes from the range 99202-99499 which is called Evaluation and management (E/M) codes to represent services offered by physicians. These codes are applicable while evaluating and managing patient health. These (E/M) codes have been around for many years still reporting timed-based services is confusing. So let’s […]
On 19th Jan 2020, the American Medical Association (AMA) added new CPT codes (91302 and 0031A) for Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine, a division of Johnson & Johnson. Janssen is a single-dose COVID-19 vaccine which is 4th vaccine to get unique CPT codes for documentation and billing. The new CPT codes will be effective for use on […]
Basics of Open Fracture Debridement Debridement is used to remove foreign material or damaged, dead, or contaminated tissue from a surgical field, wound, or injury. Debridement is used to promote healthy healing of damaged skin, tissue, muscle, or bone. The debridement of small amounts of devitalized or granulation tissue during a surgical procedure is typically […]
Basics of Worker’s Compensation Worker’s compensation, commonly known as worker’s comp, is a type of insurance that covers the treatment of injuries occurring on the job. Employers typically purchase commercial worker’s comp policies directly, although some states administer these policies. Medical billers must therefore remain aware of the worker’s comp policies for their state, including […]
Providers seeing a 2 percent payment decrease on their Remittance Advice (RA) is due to a mandatory sequestration payment reduction. Claim adjustment reason code (CARC) 253 is used to report the sequestration reduction. The code will appear as a CO 253 on the RA ‘Sequestration-reduction in federal payment’ as the reason. For the Medicare Fee-for-Service […]