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Darlene works as an administrative assistant/medical coder at North American Partners in Anesthesia, New Britain, CT/Melville, NY. When she first started with the company in 1990, it was called New Britain Anesthesia, PC, but then merged with North American Partners …
Welcome to the Coding Certification Review Blitz. The reason I call it a “blitz” is because after two full days of this, you’re going to feel like you’re blitzed. Other people call them boot camps or whatever, but basically, it’s …
Understanding the responsibilities of being a human resource (HR) manager involve not only the hiring and firing of employees but knowledge of the medical practice’s mission statement and the goals trying to be achieved. More importantly, legal issues with laws …
When auditing a medical practice, the first thing I notice is the poor choice of diagnosis codes used to describe a patient’s condition. A claim is supposed to tell a complete story so the payer can determine if the claim …
It finally hit me last week while reviewing my Allscripts™ Practice Manager “ICD-10-CM Early Adopter Draft” for the “5th time” that months are passing quickly and that “now” is the time to officially prepare my billing and coding office for …
There are two definitions for electronic medical records. The National Alliance for Health Information Technology has described these two systems as follows: An EMR system is used within a single organization such as a solo practice or group medical practice. …
I’m not sure how everybody says this Medicare or this… Laureen: Troponin. Alicia: Yeah, I wouldn’t have said troponin. I was going to say… Well, I’ll say troponin now because you said it. Now, I can’t remember how I said …
Coding IV Push and Hydration. Q: If a patient’s chief complaint is throwing up and diarrhea, poor thing, and the patient received an IV Push of Zofran and hydration for two hours, would it be coded as 96374, that’s for …