Author "Frank Mesaros"

By Frank Mesaros
In Billing
Feb 1st, 2023
Payers are looking for more than just the correct codes for non-routine pathology stains. Pathology stains are crucial for the diagnostic evaluation of tissue samples by pathologists. There are many types of stains, which are categorized as either rou...
By Frank Mesaros
In Billing
Jan 1st, 2021
Comments Off on Top Error Rates Offer Clues to Denials
Use CERT program reports to improve proper payment rates for Medicare claims...
By Frank Mesaros
In Coding
Oct 1st, 2020
Comments Off on Supplement Your Vitamin Level Test Coding
Vitamin level test coding...
By Frank Mesaros
In Coding
Apr 2nd, 2020
Comments Off on Vitamin D: Get Your Daily Dose
Deficient understanding of this essential vitamin could wreak havoc on your coding for related testing and diagnoses. Vitamin D testing is a current Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Comparative Billing Report (CBR) topic. CBRs are edu...
By Frank Mesaros
In Coding
Jul 31st, 2019
Comments Off on The More You Know About Lyme Disease the Easier It Is to Code
The pesky illness can be diagnosed properly by knowing the signs and symptoms and detecting it with pathology. Lyme disease is a common vector-borne illness in the United States, with more than 300,000 cases each year, according to the Centers for Dis...