Articles, tagged with "medical coding", page 1
07th February 2012
Medical coding professionals form an important link between healthcare practitioners and health insurance carriers like Medicaid and Medicare. Part of the health information management team in a healthcare establishment, medical coders assign standardized...
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Author:
Marie Durham
31st January 2012
Selling outsourced medical coding invoices to a factoring firm is a great way for a business owner to ease cash flow tensions. However, if a medical coding service starts working with the wrong factoring company, then it could create a completely differen...
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Author:
PRNFunding
16th January 2012
There are few things more satisfying than knowing that your actions have helped improve the lives of others. Medical assistants provide clinical and clerical services, and play an important part in the healthcare industry by helping both patients and doct...
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Author:
Amy Russell
07th December 2011
Coding is one of the core functions of healthcare providers and, due to the complex regulatory requirements impinging upon the health information coding process, coding professionals are frequently faced with ethical challenges. There are stringent medica...
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Author:
medicalbillers
14th November 2011
Copyright (c) 2011 Rodney Henson
Have you ever entered a doctor's office, and tried to get somebody that can assist you, to no avail, the one within the front desk, on the telephone with their neighbor, and the one in the back at this desk with their n...
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Author:
Rodney
25th October 2011
Are you trying to find the right approach to find the right medical billing and coding jobs around?
In this write-up we are going to talk about more about this subject and what you will want to know to make the most out of your training. If you are lo...
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Author:
Mark Wellman
18th October 2011
Electronic health record (EHR) legislation has an impact on everyday life of Americans. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 established requirement...
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Author:
Art Jones
10th October 2011
Laying the Foundation for a Successful Online Business
If your goal is to build a successful online business, you can't pick up with the first business opportunity that comes along. You have to devote some energy to finding the opportunity that is righ...
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Author:
Shaun Broadhead
20th September 2011
Medical billing courses are gaining importance today with rising need for medicinal invoice proficient. These professionals play a very significant role in health care centers and in clinics. They maintain the patients' financial records and get payments ...
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Author:
Kshitiz Mahajan
03rd August 2011
A lot of people are looking for a decent job. Basically, even if the economy of the world is not too stable, they are still being choosy on the kind of job that they will consider. Usually, they look for high paying jobs. In the current state of the econo...
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Author:
lexordaren
25th July 2011
Here are four medical coding strategies every ortho coder needs to know.
If your orthopedist carries out several procedures during a knee arthroscopy on the same patient on the same day, you will need to understand the multiple-scope rule to figure out...
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Author:
James Smith
07th July 2011
For some time, Hyaluronate injections have had its own J code. However it has been changed from 'unspecified' to its own assigned code, back to 'unspecified' and then back to an assigned HCPCS code. Now that all hyaluronate injections fall under the same ...
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Author:
James Smith
14th June 2011
Know which carrier prefers which modifier prior to submitting your claims.
If you are presently working in the billing and coding world, you will be aware of the loads of challenges that come with coding and billing for your ambulatory surgical center....
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Author:
James Smith
18th May 2011
The nursing vocation has witnessed tremendous changes in the last five decades. There are many profits in nursing career as well as nursing education. The nursing courses are in high demand that every medical industry need employments in this continually ...
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Author:
Kshitiz Mahajan
04th May 2011
Recently, my gastroenterologist ordered barium enema for a four-year old male patient with a history of encopresis and constipation. Therefore, I am billing the procedure for my radiologist. How should you report the procedure if the radiologist writes...
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Author:
Erin Lang Masercola