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In order to be the best practice management consultant or practice manager, you should not only be a certified coder and know medical billing, you should also be able to approach the medical practice as a business – a business with profit and loss statements, quality in healthcare, cash management, electronic medical records, social media, HIPAA, data security, human resources, fraud and abuse, office space flow charts, and various corrective measures to ensure business continuity.
UPDATE: CCO no longer offers Practicode. Please visit the AAPC for access http://cco.pe/practicode Hello everyone and welcome to the CCO Practicum page here with Practicode, and we’re talking today about why people want to get involved with purchasing the Practicode course …
Medical Coding Search Tools Q: Medical Coding Search Tools / Bubble Highlighting Technique – Can you share your tools for searches, and explain briefly how you “bubble” sections of the CPT? A: Absolutely, this is one of our claims to fame …
Q: [Auto Liability] Is it acceptable when a patient comes in for an E/M that is auto-liability (related to auto accident), but at the end of that visit expresses health related issues that the physician addresses. Is it OK to …
Laureen: This question is Immunotherapy Injection Sequencing. A student asked us about this scenario. Actually, I don’t know if it was a student or actually might just be someone on our discussion board who needed some coding help Scenario: The …
The other part of the story that we need to think about is “3 of 3” versus “2 of 3.” That’s very critical to getting the right levels. If you look here, it says, “which requires these three key components” …
Coders often get confused when appropriate sequencing modifiers are applied to procedure code(s) and their claims get denied for the “improper use of modifiers”. How can that be if the modifiers used were accurate? The answer is simple: There is …
Alicia: We have another CPC one, 81002 with Modifier 25. Q: Medicaid and Aetna are denying our urinalysis (81002), stating that they are included with the office visit. Would it be appropriate to bill it with a modifier 25? A: …
The need for experienced medical practice managers has grown rapidly with the implementation of electronic medical records, ever-changing state and federal regulations, and incentive programs such as Meaningful Use and Physician Quality Reporting Services. Physicians frequently make the mistake of …