If your practice conducts, or is considering conducting, simple in-house laboratory tests for such common medical conditions as pregnancy, diabetes, or drug dependency, then more than likely you have heard of CLIA.
But if you don’t know what a CLIA-waived test is, or if your knowledge
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Take advantage of expert podiatry coding guidance for sure-footed reporting.
Podiatry coding is becoming increasingly complicated, and even the smallest reporting mistakes can lead to claim denials and reduced reimbursement. Worse, the stakes tend to escalate, with minor unchecked errors taking a major bite out of your
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Are lower payment rates due to the new hourly wage calculation on the horizon for home health agencies?
If you’re not paying close attention to cost reporting because you think it doesn’t matter, think again. Medicare’s proposal to rebalance hospice payment between care levels based on
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Get money-in-the-bank answers to solve your ophthalmology and optometry claim challenges.
Can you afford to guess when the right code could mean a substantial difference in reimbursement? Uncertain reporting is a costly gamble. Still, it happens every so often. A chart leaves you guessing. What eye
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Keep your ortho claims on track as our experts take on Q&A from orthopedic coders like you.
Orthopedic coding can get complicated fast, as you well know, and the ways to go wrong and risk your hard-earned reimbursement are many. That’s why we asked Chris Boucher,
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Need expert help for pain-free pain management coding?
A diagnosis for the cause of a patient’s pain isn’t always possible, and pain treatment varies widely from physician to physician. These two traits make pain management unique among medical specialties, which can make pain management coding uniquely
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We posed your ob-gyn reporting questions to our resident experts, and here’s their advice to help you keep your claims on track.
Maybe not frequently, but it happens often enough — a chart comes across your desk that leaves you scratching your head. What ob-gyn medical
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Here’s a fun little coding challenge for you. Get out your ICD-10-CM, CPT®, and HCPCS manuals, and see which codes you need to paint the full picture of this scenario.
One of your adult patients steps on a rusty nail, which opens up a 1.2 cm
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If you’ve noticed a small yet significant decrease in your pathology practice or clinical lab income for the first quarter of 2019, don’t be surprised. That’s because CMS estimates the 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) changes will result in an overall two percent decrease
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As the feds scrutinize Medicare claims more closely in 2019, now is the time to update your audit policies and improve your compliance training.
You’re probably aware that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) runs your Medicare claims through an automated system of algorithms
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