Coding & Documentation

Physicals don't need to be a painful exercise in billing at your medical practice if you get the coding and reimbursement details right. Here's how to do it.

Coding tips from the February 2004 issue

Here is expert coding guidance on specimen collecting; chemical cardioversion; colonoscopy with biopsy; home health certification and much more.

How to figure what should and shouldn't be bundled

Why and how to perform self-audits of charts

Here's medical coding guidance on specifying source of pain; blood draws for PSA; sports physicals; monitoring IV fluids; and surgical assistants.

You need to make sure you are billing for your full value and getting back what you are owed.

Questions and answers about coding

Medical coding poses as rational exercise. Every service has a code. You document the service you provide. You get paid. On the surface, it seems pretty straightforward.

An interview with Curt Udell on billing and coding

Questions and answers about coding are taken from the Ask an Expert section of our Web site, www.PhysiciansPractice.com.

Coding Q and As from the January/February 2003 issue

How to handle the physician-payer relationship

How to make sure payers send the right amount

An opinion piece on who should code and why

Advice from Georgette Gustin, president of the national advisory board of the AAPC

Five coding mistakes and how to avoid them

Who should code? Physicians, staff or someone else?

More practices are doing internal audits to catch small mistakes before they turn into big problems

A conversation about coding and fraud and abuse issues with legal expert Alice Gosfield

Coder Emily Hill talks back about fraud and abuse prosecutions and undercoding

How to bill incident-to -- and guidelines for when you can and can't

Downcoding makes physicians lose money. Here's how to avoid it.