Archive for The Day of August 8th, 2006
Archive for the Day of August 8th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of August 8th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during August 8th, 2006.
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Can You Bill Medicare – When the Patient Has Died
A confusing medical billing situation can arise when a patient dies en route or shortly after being admitted to a hospital. Many medical billers struggle with what to report or amount of procedures to report that were performed prior to the patient expiring. A good example would be a patient that presented in the ED for CPR direction. The ED physician tells EMS to perform defibrillation and administer medications. When EMS brings the patient into the ED, the doctor examines the patient and decides there isn’t cause to continue CPR and pronounces the patient dead. How should this be reported? Normally, on your medical billing form, you would usually bill …
The Removal of Sutures
Medical billing allows for very little wiggle room in your descriptions and documentation. Almost all surgeries, whether performed in the doctor’s office, or in the operating room have a follow-up period. This means that during that particular 15-day, 30-day, 60-day, etc. period, any treatment the surgeon does for that surgery is included in the medical billing of the surgery itself. However, there is an exception to this rule. An example of an exception to this medical billing rule deals with mentally handicapped patients. The removal of sutures is usually a procedure performed within the postoperative follow-up period. Medical billing is usually done only for the surgery. However, if a mentally …
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