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Mandated requirements for implementing electronic health records (EHRs) and the transition to ICD-10-CM diagnosis coding – plus a large population of aging baby boomers – will keep medical coders and billers as necessary commodities for years to come. Knowing this, …
Q: Compare Septicemia, SIRS and Sepsis. What are the differences? A: Well, this gets very confusing. That little [star] up there, this will work for a specialty CEU, I believe. The American College of Chest Physicians and the Society of …
ICD-codes are diagnosis codes. Today, most of the ICD codes used in the United States are version 9, which are called ICD-9-CM codes. However, by October of 2015, ICD-10 will be the system used. Many countries in the world have implemented the …
Q: I pulled this scenario from E/M university and would like to know why only one bullet was credited for the cardiovascular system. A: This is a scenario that someone got from the E/M university – and I believe that’s …
Test Taking Tip for ICD-10 – Of course, I’m a diagnosis coder by trade so I really like ICD-10 and I could talk all day on this, so I kind of pushed this back to one of the latter slides …
When any business is involved with a major system conversion, at risk is the potential disruption to medical billing cash flow, resulting in a negative impact to the bottom line. While it is expected that reimbursements will initially decline with …
A code for twins – This question came in, and you know what, this one I really struggled with and I actually had to talk to one of our other instructors, JoAnne [Sheehan], and get her opinion on this because …
There are many medical billing services in the market competing for clients. However, with the new healthcare legislation and aging of today’s baby boomer population, there is a huge need for medical billers in the healthcare field. Healthcare provider needs …