What is Medical Billing and Coding?

What is Medical Billing and Coding?

I love this infographic – what do you think? Source: Trade-schools.net CTA Modifiers Job Aid Tool [mod-aid-tool] CTA Medical Coding Training with Personal Coach [med-train-coach] CTA Pass CPC Exam Next Try [pass-cpc-exam] CTA Mini-Series How Become Medical Coder [mini-series-coding] CTA …

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Medical Coding Help — How to Code Cardio Stress Test

Medical Coding Help — How to Code Cardio Stress Test

Mimi had asked for some medical coding help and if we would explain 93015 and that’s the CPT code for a cardio stress test. The background about a stress test is that they do them for various reasons but they’re …

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Medical Coding Tips — 4 Ways To Code Delivering A Baby

Medical Coding Tips — 4 Ways To Code Delivering A Baby

So this is an OB question for the certified coders out there… and when I teach this, I say in class, “How many ways are there to deliver a baby?” and most people will say, “Well, two: vaginally and cesarian.” …

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Medical Coding Certification – How To Code Vaccines and Administration

Medical Coding Certification — How to Code Vaccines and Administration

Medical Coding Certification – How To Code Vaccines and Administration. RS asks, “A one year old receives 2 vaccines after the parent was counseled, DT and IM injectable poliomyelitis. How to code vaccines and administration? Does the order of the …

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Medical Coding Question On Cardiovascular Stents

Medical coding question on cardiovascular stents, okay. “Laureen, I’m the very fortunate recipient of your Blitz prize from attending the webinar. Yay! I’m having difficulty coding stents. I know they’re a pain along with other procedures performed in a non-coronary …

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Medical Coding Question: How To Code For Nursing Home Visits

Medical Coding Question: How To Code For Nursing Home Visits

Medical Coding Questions: CPT Nursing Facility Services. This one is Alicia’s. Diane asked, “Nursing home resident monthly visit note. If you’re seeing a resident for their required visit… and the keyword there is ‘required’… the MD says, “No complaints, nothing …

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CPC Exam Prep — Tabbing Your Manuals

CPC Exam Prep — Tabbing Your Manuals

CPC exam prep: Tabbing your manuals. Jody wants to know what is the best way to tab your coding books and do footnotes help? Alicia did this slide and I agree with everything. The less tabs, the better. CPC Exam …

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Organic Insomnia versus Non-organic Insomnia

Medical Coding - Organic Insomnia versus Non-organic Insomnia

Ruth- one of our students- wanted to get an explanation of organic insomnia versus non-organic insomnia. She tried to look up in the dictionary to get the definition but it didn’t help her. So what we did was we looked …

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