{"id":1829,"date":"2013-02-07T06:56:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T06:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcodersblog.com\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2025-05-21T12:13:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T12:13:33","slug":"how-vital-is-an-efficient-medical-billing-in-preserving-thoracic-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.medicalbillersandcoders.com\/blog\/how-vital-is-an-efficient-medical-billing-in-preserving-thoracic-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"How Vital Is an Effective and Efficient Medical Billing and Coding in Preserving Thoracic Surgery Practice Profitability?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thoracic surgical specialty is one of those priority specialties that have always been in high demand across the 50 states in the U.S., and the forecast is for an increased incidence of thoracic surgical cases. While practitioners in thoracic surgical specialty may continue to be optimistic about their future practice, constant clinical innovations and complexity of the procedures would still have to be taken care of.<\/p>\n

Thoracic surgery often involves preoperative, operative, and surgical critical care of patients with problems within the chest. The magnitude of focus leaves physicians confined to clinical care alone, leaving them largely ignorant of finer aspects of Thoracic medical billing and coding<\/a>, and reimbursement management.<\/p>\n

A specialty as complex and critical as Thoracic surgery requires physicians to be conversant with the entire process of Thoracic medical billing, beginning with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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  • Ability to read and abstract physician office notes and operative notes to apply correct ICD-CM, CPT, HCPCS Level II and modifier coding assignments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Evaluation and management (both the 1995 and 1997 Documentation Guidelines)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Rules and regulations of Medicare billing including (but not limited to) incident to, eaching situations, shared visits, consultations and global surgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Coding of surgical procedures performed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Knowledge of Medical terminology associated with Thoracic specialty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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