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Received Payer Request for Medical Records? Keep Calm and Take These Steps
If a letter were to arrive at your organization in an innocuous-appearing envelope, you may be afraid to open it.…
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Ambulatory Surgical Centers
Understand Payment Rates and Basics of ASC Billing
An Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) is defined by CMS as a facility with the sole purpose of providing outpatient surgical…
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Understand Basics of Optometry E/M Coding
Typically, eye care practitioners don’t use the E/M codes for what most optometrists consider a general eye examination. They are…
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Skilled Nursing Facilities Billing Services
Common Denials for SNF and How to Avoid Them?
Denial 1: Certification or Recertification Statement (Missing/ Lacked Information) From 2012-2014 the percentage rate of improper payments to SNF almost…
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Ambulance Transportation Billing Services
Top 5 Compliance Issues for Ambulance Biller
Ambulance service billing involves a host of unique compliance challenges. The ambulance industry has seen a significant number of false…
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Time-Based Billing for CPT Evaluation and Management
Within the guidelines of the CPT code book, CPT has stated; “When counseling and/or coordination of care dominates (more than…
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Avoid the Top 10 Modifier Mistakes – Modifier 58
Matching CPT code with an ICD 10 code, this would seem to be a very straightforward process but there are…
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