27th October 2009
In the world of healthcare coding, there are two distinct groups of coders – outpatient and inpatient. If you are keen to embark on a medical coding career and want to learn medical coding, it is important that you understand the difference between out...
22nd October 2009
There are a lot of employment opportunities in the medical coding and billing world. The demand for a certified professional coder is high; as such, she can earn promising salaries.
But the salary of a medical coder differs from place to place. A coder ...
14th October 2009
Medical coding is a booming sphere, which is expected to grow larger over the coming years. As per the US department of labor, the coding world will be growing much faster due to the rapid growth of the medical industry as a whole.
Before you dive right...
14th October 2009
Medical coders are healthcare administrative workers who assign codes to patient procedure files to ensure correct billing to insurance companies. They are a vital peg in the overall financial health of any practice. It’s not mandatory that medical cod...
12th October 2009
Having a Certified Professional Coder - Hospital (CPC-H) certification is the way to go. When you have a CPC-H medical coding certification in your hand, you will be familiar with both the Physician office coding as well as the Hospital based outpatient c...
28th September 2009
If a patient’s Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) treatment stretches into extended care, do you let carrier’s strict guidelines stop your rightful reimbursement?
It’s a strict no no. Instead train your providers to document medical necessity by caref...
28th September 2009
You are familiar with the physician office coding. You are well-versed in your office system, but you realize that your coding career is heading nowhere and profits are not coming in as you would want them to.
One way to turn around things for yourself ...
23rd September 2009
Evaluation and Management (E/M) coding is the process by which physician-patient encounters are assigned five digit CPT codes for the purpose of billing medical claim.
To ensure correct E/M coding, you’ll need to establish the place of service where o...
23rd September 2009
The medical coding industry has two distinct career options – outpatient and inpatient. Both are promising fields in this growing healthcare sector. The outpatient coding market provides work opportunities in physician practices, hospitals, ambulatory ...
23rd September 2009
Anesthesia coding has its own codes, rules and course challenges. As such, an inexperienced coder might find himself in the dock when anesthesia coding challenges surface. However a certification in hand might help you wriggle out of such coding challenge...
23rd September 2009
If you’re weary of submitting medical necessity letters to support providing anesthesia to a patient who couldn’t take sedation, don’t worry, there’s good news for you. ICD-9 2010 provides stage-specific codes for gout and gives individual codes f...
06th September 2009
Evaluation and Management coding is a key part of the hospital’s revenue cycle; therefore it’s essential that these codes are reported accurately. In order to do well in your evaluation and management coding career, you need to go for a certification ...
25th August 2009
Medical coders are high in demand these days and as such, educators are providing medical coding courses to help workers get started in this field. There are a number of medical coding schools where one can get hold of every aspect of medical coding and b...
23rd August 2009
With a medical coder training, you’ll learn everything that you need to be a medical coder. But where do you head to when you need a medical coding job? As a new entrant, you might be groping in the dark if you do not have the slightest idea about where...
11th August 2009
The medical coding field generates coders who specialize in coding after a thorough training program and certification process. Certified professional coders certainly enjoy a lot of advantages. But the picture’s not that rosy initially when coders hav...
