Online Coding Classes – Place of Service Codes and Its Uses – Video

Q: The CPC Exam Prep: Place of Service Codes: What are place of service codes and how are they used? A: The abbreviation for that is POC, if you didn’t know. What I was able to do was just go …

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Billing Classes Online – Starting a Medical Billing Business at Home

As a medical billing instructor of many years, I’m frequently asked if I feel it’s feasible for a person right out of a program to start their own medical billing business at home.  My answer is a double-edged sword of …

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Medical Billing and Coding Courses – Preparation Courses For ICD 10 – Video

Alicia: We like to throw in prep courses for ICD-10. This time since Laureen was away, I kind of shuffled these information slides in between some of our content slides, and wanted to bring up the ICD-10 Mini Course, the ICD-10 …

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How to Land Your First Medical Billing Job

Medical Billing Job

As a medical billing instructor of many years, I am frequently asked how to land that first medical billing job.  My intention is to make this article concise and focused on the steps that I suggest to my own medical …

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National Coverage Determination and Local Coverage Determination | Online Coding Courses

Alicia: Q: Alright. We had a question come in through the forum that was really good; it’s about NCD and LCDs. Now, with just that acronym, you’re not going to know what that is, National Coverage Determination and Local Coverage …

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Medical Billing Course Online – Avoiding Claim Rejections

In medical billing, one doesn’t want rejected claims. However, rejected claims will happen. It is important to do our best as medical billers to minimize the amount of claims rejections we receive. How can this be done? Following good medical …

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Medical Coding and Billing Courses Online – Video

Q #20: Is it appropriate to use V79.8 OR V20.2 for MCHAT diagnosis code when a screening questionnaire is given to the parent to complete for an 18-month old.  A. M-CHAT stands for Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddler. An …

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Medical Billing Education – Form Use for Ambulatory Surgical Center Billing

Frequently, I am asked by students which form to use between the CMS-1500 form versus the UB-04 form. In most medical billing training programs, it is taught that inpatient billing uses the UB-04 form and outpatient billing uses the CMS-1500 …

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