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...
ICD-10 Codes for Amyloidosis – A Rare Heart Condition
Amyloidosis is a rare medical condition caused by the accumulation of the protein amyloid in organs. Amyloid accumulation can result in organ dysfunction. Amyloidosis can affect the heart, kidneys,...
How Do You Code and Bill for Craniotomy?
A craniotomy is the surgical removal of part of the bone (called a bone flap) - from the skull to access/expose the brain. The section of bone - called the bone flap - is removed using specialized...
Medical Codes for Reporting Common Skin Conditions
Skin diseases or disorders refer to conditions that affect the skin. These include all conditions that tend to clog, irritate or inflame the skin. Temporary or permanent, these conditions may cause...