Articles
Coding: Your Top Coding Concerns Solved (posted on 5/1/08)
Tips from our biweekly e-mail newsletter. This issue: Debunking billers’ old wives’ tales.
Coding: Your Top Coding Concerns Solved (posted on 4/1/08)
Tips from our biweekly e-mail newsletter. This issue: Using time to code for office visits; Who, what, when, where, and why?
Billing and Collections: Rules to Code By (posted on 3/1/08)
With thousands of complex coding rules and a busy practice to run, some billing mistakes are inevitable. And every mistake costs you money. What to do? With our help, learn how to avoid the most common coding blunders, and get paid on time (almost) every time.
Coding: Your Top Coding Concerns Solved (posted on 3/1/08)
Tips from our biweekly e-mail newsletter. This issue: Getting clearance for pre-op services.
Coding: Your Top Coding Concerns Solved (posted on 2/1/08)
Tips from our biweekly e-mail newsletter. This issue: Help with observation codes.
Coding: Your Top Coding Concerns Solved (posted on 1/1/08)
Tips from our biweekly e-mail newsletter. This issue: Clean house in your billing office; Details matter in review of systems.
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Q & A
Billing Interdisciplinary Rehab Team Conferences (posted 5/1/08)
Aside from the billing code for daily personal contact with the patient and notations in the patient’s record and occasional conferences with a family member, please advise me regarding the appropriate E&M code(s) for weekly conferences with the rehabilitation team members assuming an average of 10 minutes per patient.
Diabetic Blood Draws (posted 5/1/08)
There are many patients with diabetes and hyperlipidemia in my practice of mainly elderly patients.
Medical Necessity Denials (posted 5/1/08)
We have a doctor that is billing Medicare for 97032-GP: “application of modality to one or more areas” and Medicare is denying as not medically necessary.
Phase III of Stark and DME (posted 5/1/08)
We have new durable medical equipment (DME) that we will be giving to our respiratory patients.
Can You Really Use 99215? (posted 4/1/08)
Some doctors in other practices will code Medicare patients with a level 5, 99215, when they do a complete history and physical.
Is It Worth Billing the New Phone Codes? (posted 4/1/08)
I see there are new CPT codes for phone calls.
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Tools
IPPE Basics
A quick overview of the Initial Preventive Physical Examination (IPPE),
a new Medicare benefit effective 1-1-05. Understand the components and how to...
E&M Coding Worksheet
This Excel worksheet, provided by Lighthouse MD, is meant to expedite E&M coding....
E & M Coding Benchmarks
Compare your E&M coding patterns with national norms from Medicare (2005). It's a fast way to see if you are out of whack. Translate Medicare's data f...
Modifier Manual
Plain language advice on using common modifiers....
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