Archive for The Month of August, 2006
Archive for the Month of August, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the month of August, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during the month of August, 2006.
You can browse this month's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.
Tips for Dealing With Pessary Coding
Have you ever struggled while dealing with pesky pessary coding issues? If so, then it is a great idea to come up with some sort of strategy that will help you to better understand these codes as well as the different reasons for them. When you are dealing with the pessary codes, you should take several things into consideration including the information provided in manuals, the procedures at hand, what the policies are for the particular practice and all of the supplies that are involved. Basically, the definition of a pessary is a specific support device to aid in weaknesses of the pelvic floor. Such weaknesses or problems will include …
Properly Discussing Coverage For Emergency Room Patients
It is no secret at all that no matter what the times are like in this country financially, there are still patients who do not have proper insurance coverage, and often times not even the means to pay for their medical bills should an emergency situation arise. The first priority should always be the well being of the patient in any type of an emergency medical situation. After all, caretakers are in the medical profession to help cure people and to save lives. However, there does come a time when you do have to inquire about how certain medical fees will be paid whether it be from an insurance carrier …
Taking Some Of The Confusion Out Of Consult Requests
Filing the proper documentation can end up being confusing enough without the added problem of finding out that you did not file the right papers to begin with. For any individual who has ever been involved in taking care of consult request documentation for physicians, this filing procedure has often been known to be a complete nightmare. There have been recent worries that specialists would end up being responsible for others who have filed either incorrect or incomplete paperwork, according to some rules in the Medicare guidelines. Any time that you find yourself faced with incomplete consult request documentation, you should know that you are not to be held responsible …
Medical Outsourcing For Specialists
Specialists have unique problems when they need to outsource their medical billing. They need to find a vendor that understands their procedures and can accurately pick the correct coding in case the physician merely checks a main procedure performed. Knowledge of the nature of the services the Specialist renders by the medical billing firm will insure that claims are not under or partially paid when the medical billing claims are filed and will be fully reimbursed and save the Specialist a lot of legwork having to pull files and re-read procedures to see what was actually done. Outsourcing your medical billing to a firm that can handle your specialty claims …
Proper Ultrasound Coding for Soft Tissues of the Head
Ultrasound codings can be daunting for some medical billers. It can be confusing to narrow down the exact nature of the procedure and to provide the documentation to show the necessity of an ultrasound, no matter what the results were. When reporting a procedure such as an ultrasound of a patient’s lip, you will need to be certain that the appropriate code, which is 76536 (Ultrasound, soft tissues of head and neck [e.g., thyroid, parathyroid, parotid], B-scan, and/or real time with image documentation) is used. Code 76536 describes a B-scan ultrasound of the soft tissues of the head and neck. A B-scan is a “two-dimensional ultrasonic scanning procedure with a …
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