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Follow These Tips To Scale Up Your Claims For Bone Density Screening

Published on Wed Aug 24, 2016

Follow the two-year rule and limit diagnosis coding to screening encounters. If you don’t have your codes arranged perfectly when your radiologist performs bone density screening, then your claim could crumble into a denial disaster. Here is how you can build a clean claim for bone density screening. Also important is to understand when the physician can advise a screening. [...]
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