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Medical Billing and Coding Training- Accurateness
When we think about medical billing and coding training, specifically medical practices and patients visits, we tend to simplify our perception of office protocol: • A patient checks in at the front...
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Medical Billing and Coding Training- General Surgery Guidelines – Part 1
It is hard for me as a certified medical coder and biller, to separate the two professions when discussing medical coding guidelines. To be a good biller, you need to understand coding regulations; and...
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Medical Billing and Coding Training- General Surgery Guidelines – Part 2
In Part 1 of Medical Billing and Coding Training- Basic Surgery Guidelines, I focused on insurance coverage, payer rules, and modifier usage. This section will focus on what I zero in on when looking...
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Physician Practice Finances Bind Medical Coding, Billing, and Office...
Let’s assume you are working for a large physician practice or medical group and you are the coding manager. You check your staff’s work against the providers’ documentation, and everything seems to...
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Certified Physician Practice Manager (CPPM ®): A New Career Opportunity
It is no secret that I am an advocate for understanding the medical practice in its entirety. To be the best coder, a CPC® should understand billing – and vice versa. Now I am going to step the...
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Efficient Medical Practice Management
Do you ever wonder how some medical practices have it all together while others are clearly out of control and unorganized? Well I have reviewed some of my notes on the various offices I have visited...
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Are You Ready For ICD 10 CM?
The clock is ticking and you know you should be doing something to prepare for ICD 10 CM. It doesn’t matter what medical website you are logged into, you are going to be nudged, whether you like it or...
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Medical Coding Jobs- Interview Tips
It’s go time! You’ve written the cover letter, resume and now you’ve gotten a call to come in for an interview. You’re almost there. Get the Inside Scoop on Medical Coding Jobs To make it a little...
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Medical Practice Manager- Understanding Healthcare Business Processes and...
Understanding the unique duties of a medical practice manager is essential when considering this challenging and exciting career in healthcare. Medical Practice Management- Healthcare Business...
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Medical Practice Management- Physician Reimbursement
Achieving financial success within a medical practice involves specific areas of concentration beginning with focus on front desk procedures as well as the employee’s role in customer service. In...
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Physician Practice Manager- Health Care Reform
Health Care Reform will offer new sets of challenges for a physician practice manager (PPM) over the next ten years and even further into the future, regardless of the political controversy with each...
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Healthcare Compliance For Medical Practice Managers
Compliance regulations in the health care industry were created by federal and state governments to protect consumers and government health programs from fraud, abuse and waste of services. Failure to...
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Physician Practice Manager- Medical Practice Accounting
Managing the financial matters of a medical practice for a physician practice manager (PPM) requires general understanding of accounting and business as well as knowledge of insurance reimbursements,...
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Medical Practice Management – Quality in Health Care
There are many facets to providing quality service in the healthcare industry. It begins with the quality of care provided to a patient in order to avoid risks of malpractice and other liabilities and...
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Importance of Electronic Medical Records
There are two definitions for electronic medical records. The National Alliance for Health Information Technology has described these two systems as follows: An EMR system is used within a single...
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Medical Coding Experience – Change is Coming
It finally hit me last week while reviewing my Allscripts™ Practice Manager “ICD-10-CM Early Adopter Draft” for the “5th time” that months are passing quickly and that “now” is the time to officially...
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Medical Coding Guidelines
When auditing a medical practice, the first thing I notice is the poor choice of diagnosis codes used to describe a patient’s condition. A claim is supposed to tell a complete story so the payer can...
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Human Resource Management for the Physician Practice Manager
Understanding the responsibilities of being a human resource (HR) manager involve not only the hiring and firing of employees but knowledge of the medical practice’s mission statement and the goals...
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Marketing Medical Practices and Business Relationships
All medical practices want to be successful, and just like any business, there are specific ways to attract and maintain patients in a competitive field. First and foremost, a Physician Practice...
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Coding for Basic Injections in the Primary Care Practice
While auditing a primary care practice’s charge slips last week, I realized that the group of physicians and other qualified health care professionals I was working with had no understanding of coding...
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