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You will have two different claims. The first claim is the facility where the patient is located. Box 32 will have your address (assuming you w... [ Read More ]
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For the office visit, no the insurance company was billed but they decided to have this amount go towards his deductible, so we ended up having a bi... [ Read More ]
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Let me make sure I have got this straight...You paid in full for the visit AND the insurance company paid in full? That's double dipping. Contact t... [ Read More ]
I was looking for someone to give me some advice about an issue I am having with an office for overcharging.
About 4 months ago, my boyfriend went to a gastroenterologist as a referral from an ER doc... [ Read More ]
In our EHR, the provider is able to select his own diagnoses. We are curious as to whether the diagnoses he chooses are what we are able to code off of. I cannot find anything from Medicare stating th... [ Read More ]
I would report code O43.123 (Velamentous insertion of umbilical cord, third trimester)
[B]Velamentous cord insertion[/B] is an abnormal condition during pregnancy. Normally, the umbilical [B]cord[/B] ... [ Read More ]
Hello,
I am really new at the HCC coding and I was wondering if someone could help me out with finding the weight that goes along with the HCC diagnosis code to calculate the RAF score? Example- DM wi... [ Read More ]
Our billing office is under the impression that the following notes can be leveled at inpatient consult level 3. Humana thinks otherwise and wants to pay us a level 1.
Please give me your input if I ... [ Read More ]
Linda Irving CPC-A
123 W Esplanade Ave C305,
Kenner, LA 70065
[email]2urobb@gmail.com[/email]
225-252-4859
To employ with a clinic or healthcare institution where my experience and education w... [ Read More ]
Greetings SA Chapter,
The event reminder for the final chapter meeting of the year will be going out shortly. The meeting will be on November 10th, 2018. I am posting this thread i... [ Read More ]
Wondering what new procedure codes the new year will bring Wonder no more CPT 2024 will include 153 new codes throughout the code book including the Evaluation and Management section several Surgery s... [ Read More ]
Youll find minimal changes to the Medicare National Correct Coding Initiative NCCI code files this fourth quarter 2023. The update effective Oct. 1 includes just three changes to code edits in both th... [ Read More ]
Former MedPAC commissioner cites agencies high profit margins. Home health agencies HHAs have been making a lot of noise to push back on the proposed rate cuts for 2024 and a Senate hearing has added ... [ Read More ]
Code descriptor revisions are about time. After the extensive changes CPT made to the evaluation and management EM codes and guidelines over the last few years youll be relieved to know that the EM ch... [ Read More ]
DOCUCON provides answers and solutions for CDI specialists and those considering a CDI career. AAPC concluded its clinical documentation improvement CDI conference DOCUCON today. Healthcare business p... [ Read More ]