Cystitis refers to inflammation of the bladder. It is the most common urinary tract infection in women. Cystitis can be acute, characterized by sudden onset, or interstitial, a chronic condition...
What are the Main Medical Denial Codes?
Medical claims are the lifeblood of a healthcare organization. Submitting accurate claims is essential to maintain a provider's financial health. Competent providers of medical billing and coding...
ICD-10 Codes to Report Shingles (Herpes Zoster)
Regarded as a serious viral infection, shingles (also known as herpes zoster) causes an outbreak of a painful rash or blisters on the skin. Reports from the Centres for Disease Control and...
6 Key Denial Management Strategies for Your Chiropractic Practice
Denial management is essential to improve your chiropractic practice's revenue growth. Denial management involves assessing the root cause of denials and using a proactive approach to ensure proper...
CPT Codes to Report Spinal Cord Stimulation for Chronic Pain
Spinal cord stimulation is used when other nonsurgical treatment options fail to provide sufficient pain relief. The procedure help improve different types of chronic pain, such as back pain,...
5 Strategies to Succeed with Risk Adjustment
Under value-based care, providers are reimbursed for better care, not more care. Patients with chronic conditions require more intensive care than patients who are generally healthy. Risk adjustment...
ICD-10 Codes for 11 Rare Tooth Disorders
There are many rare dental conditions that can cause major problems and affect daily living. In addition to treating them, dentists need to report these conditions on claims using the right ICD-10...
What is Claim Scrubbing in Medical Billing?
Medical billing is a complex process with many steps to ensure that hospitals, physician practices and other healthcare organizations get paid for services provided to patients. Healthcare providers...
Codes to Report Common Inflammatory Disorders
Inflammatory diseases are disorders of the immune system and can be acute or chronic. While acute inflammation takes only hours or days to cure, chronic inflammation is that which lasts one year or...