Archive for The Month of July, 2006

Archive for the Month of July, 2006

Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the month of July, 2006.

Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during the month of July, 2006.

You can browse this month's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.

Using 92630

Aural Rehabilitation has caused a lot of confusion regarding how to do the medical billing correctly for the best reimbursements. Additionally, medical billing changes to Aural Rehab CPT codes have incorrectly caused many people to believe Aural Rehabilitation is not covered. Medicare actually assigned status code “I” to all new medical billing codes for auditory rehabilitation. These codes are 92630 and 92633. This means that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will not pay for auditory rehabilitation, only diagnostic audiology. However, this is only true if an audiologist performs the service and the medical billing. There are several other medical professionals that could possibly perform medical billing for aural

Bigger Reimbursements for 92626

Medical billing in the speech, language, and hearing community is looking a little more lucrative. A transmittal released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a dramatic increase for reimbursement for the Current procedural terminology code 92626. Medical billing reimbursement will be nearly four times the old amount for this code. The current procedural terminology code 92626 (Evaluation of auditory rehabilitation status; first hour) was reimbursable at $22.07. This has changed. Medical billing now allows this code to be valued at $81.76. The relative value unit (RVU) used to calculate this medical billing reimbursement was 2.20. Originally the RVU was 0.55. The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA)

Get Better Reimbursements with 77470

There are some cases when certain medical billing practices can get your office more financial reimbursement. The use of the current procedural terminology code 77470 is one of those instances. This code, however, cannot be used all of the time. There are certain things you must keep in mind before using the medical billing code 77470 for your claims. Sometimes the physicians in your clinic can see patients with special needs. For instance, an oncologist may see a patient that has a pacemaker. The pacemaker can make visits and treatment plans more time consuming for the physician. In this instance, the medical billing code 77470 may be used. 77470 in

Split Out Your Coding for Chronic Kidney Disease

There have been some ICD-9 coding changes for chronic kidney disease (CKD) medical billing. In mid-2006, CMS revamped the CKD diagnosis coding section and now, if your practice treats a patient that suffers from CKD, you will need to use one of the stage specific codings the 585.1-585.5 series. Here are the CKD diagnosis codes that CMS wants you to use in 2006: * 585.1–Chronic kidney disease, stage I. Use this code for patients who have kidney damage with normal or increased glomerular filtration rate (GFR), greater than or equal to 90 ml/min/1.73m. * 585.2–… stage II (mild). This code represents kidney damage with mild decrease in GFR, 60-89 ml/min/1.73m.

Getting Your Medical Billing Claims Paid

If your medical billing forms don’t have the proper diagnosis codes listed on your billings that are submitted to Medicare & Medicaid Services, the claim can be rejected. Any claim without a valid diagnosis code will not be processed. In previous years, when claims came in from service providers with incorrect diagnosis codings, the Medicare carriers would make the proper corrections and then reimburse the medical billing claim. Medicare personnel will no longer perform that function. Absolute correct coding is now required in order to reimburse for Medicare Part B services. A lot of service providers used to rely on this correction by the personnel at Medicare. As this is

Search All Articles:
Advanced Search

Site Maps for Our Web Site: