Medical coding for HIV screening is one of the most important medical billing and coding services offered by reliable medical outsourcing providers. When the CDC estimates that over 1.2 billion...
Medical Coding for Pain Management Services
Pain management medical coding can be a challenge for busy specialists. Pain can be acute, chronic, or both. Treatment strategies differ depending on the type of pain present. Reliable and...
ICD-10 has Codes for Reporting Casualties that Occur at Sea and Other Water Bodies
There are around 68,000 billing codes under the ICD-10 medical coding system compared to 13,000 codes under ICD-9. This massive expansion of diagnostic codes is intended to smooth billing processes...
Preventing Medicare Claim Denials for CT Scans
Computed Tomography (CT) scans and services are crucial when it comes to radiology billing for Medicare. During the 2014 reporting period for the Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) program, it...
ICD-10-CM Medical Coding for Toxic Reactions
The properties of some drugs, medicinal and biological substances or their combinations may cause toxic reactions in patients. The ICD-9-CM coding system has classified these reactions into adverse...
ASC (Ambulatory Surgical Center) Payment System July 2015 Update – Key Points
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced new changes to its payment systems for the second quarter of 2015. It has published the July 2015 update of Ambulatory Surgical...
Why is it Important to Ensure Insurance Eligibility Before Heart Transplant Procedure
Cardiac transplantation or heart transplantation is recommended as a treatment for people having severe heart failure and severe symptoms despite providing maximum medical therapy. Heart transplants...
Image-guided Intranasal SPG Block Effective for Migraines
A group of researchers from the Albany Medical Center and the State University New York Empire State College in Saratoga Springs found that image-guided, intranasal sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) is...
Preparations to Tackle Revenue Loss after ICD-10 Roll Out
One of the most important considerations practices must have while preparing for ICD-10 is tackling the revenue loss expected to occur just after ICD-10 implementation. The biggest costs will come...