It is very important to assign accurate diagnostic codes for a pandemic, for correct medical billing as well as tracking the outbreak. When submitting claims for treatment, you should report the ICD...
Effective Steps Orthopedic Surgeons Could Take to Prevent Medication Errors
The first report of The Institute of Medicine (IOM), the famous 'To Err is Human' published in 1999 revealed that around 7000 deaths occur annually from medication errors alone. In 2006, another...
Routine Screening for Colorectal Cancer to Facilitate Early Diagnosis and Treatment
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires health benefit plans that started on or after September 23, 2010 to provide coverage for colorectal cancer screening tests. For those plans that started before...
Dedicated Diagnostic Code in the EHR May Enhance Patient Care
Accurate documentation of any specific health condition is crucial from the point of view of patient care as well as adequate and timely reimbursement for providers. If providers use a dedicated...
Medical Specialties Significantly Impacted by ICD-10
The implementation of ICD-10 will dramatically impact the way coding is done. In October 2015, the US health care system will transition to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th...
Best Practices for Medical Billing
The 2013 Practice Productivity Index, a survey which covered more than 5,000 U.S. physicians found that 58% of doctors 9% spend at least one day per week on paperwork instead of treating patients....
Population Health Management – The Case for Value Based Healthcare
For long, the US Healthcare system has been predominantly based on the fee-for-service model wherein the patient receives quality care and the medical bill payment will be done by either the patient...
Medical Debt – What Physicians Need to Know
Even with the establishment of the Affordable Care Act to help avoid mounting bills, consumers are getting drowned in huge medical debts. For physicians too, medical debt collection is more...
Provisions of the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
At the end of October 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2015 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), which updates payment policies and payment rates for...