Medical Coding practice exams and exam preparation tools and information
Published: Wed, 09/26/18
Outpatient Coders Improve ICD-10 Accuracy Scores, But Inpatient Keeps the Crown Outpatient coders achieved higher average accuracy scores for the…
Published: Tue, 09/25/18
Avoid These Missteps to Slash Your Medical Coding Audit Risk Whether you are dealing with a commercial payer, Medicare, or Medicaid, there are certain…
Published: Mon, 09/24/18
2019 CPT Coding for Skin Biopsies For many years we have used two codes to report skin biopsies. CPT 11100 for the first lesion and 11101 for each…
Published: Sat, 09/15/18
How Implementing a Career Ladder Improves Coder Accuracy When Donella J. Lubelczyk, RN, BSN, ACM-RN, CRC, CRCR, entered her job as director of revenue…
Published: Fri, 09/14/18
Facilities Urged to Strengthen Coding Compliance Program Recently in healthcare news were articles about two legal actions that cause one to reflect…
Published: Thu, 09/13/18
Providers Oppose Collapsing Medicare Reimbursement for E and M Visits Providers are calling on CMS to not finalize a proposal to collapse Medicare…
Published: Wed, 09/12/18
AMA Releases 2019 CPT® Code Set The new current procedural terminology (CPT®) codes have been released with 335 code changes in 2019. There were many…
Published: Tue, 09/11/18
AMA Adds Connected Health CPT Codes, Pushes for Medicare Payment The American Medical Association (AMA) updated the Current Procedural Terminology…
Published: Mon, 09/10/18
CMS’s Proposed E&M Coding Changes and the Rest of the Story The 2019 proposed Medicare Physician Fee Schedule has clearly articulated the Centers for…
Published: Fri, 09/07/18
CMS Proposes 50 Percent Reduction in Claims Submitted with Modifier 25 By now I am sure that everyone is well aware that the Centers for Medicare &…