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Pediatric Patient History – Who Can Take It?

Contrary to popular belief, it is safe practice to allow any office member to take the review of systems and the family social history. These two evaluation and management history elements can actually be taken by absolutely anyone. It is ok in medical billing for a parent or a secretary to take down this information as long as the information is reviewed and signed off on by the acting pediatrician. The only part of an evaluation and management visit that the physician or nurse practitioner must complete for medical billing purposes is the history of present illness or the reason for the visit. By allowing your administrative staff to complete

Published By: Kathryn Etienne, CCS-P | No Comments

Getting Your Medical Billing Reimbursement-Nonphysician Practitioners

If you aren’t getting a reimbursement for the services rendered to patients by a nonphysician practitioner (NPP) affiliate with your practice, you’re leaving money on the table for the insurance company that rightfully belongs to your practice. Learn the rules of the carrier and take the time to bill under the NPP provider number and statistics show that over three-fourths of the health plans billed would reimburse at an average rate of 85%. While this isn’t a full reimbursement, it is far better than not receiving anything in return for your services rendered. There are two main rules for using this type of billing. The patient’s physician or another affiliated

Published By: Melissa Clark, CCS-P | No Comments

What ICD-10-CM Promises

What ICD-10-CM Promises The 30 year old medical billing ICD-9 coding system will soon be thrown out the window. This old system has long been outdated for our growing knowledge of medicine and medical treatments. We now know a lot more about diseases then we did thirty years ago. We also have discovered many new conditions and variations of old conditions. The new ICD-10 medical billing system promises great change to the health field. Over one hundred modern countries now use the ICD-10 medical billing coding system. The United States currently uses the ICD-9 system. With the old ICD-9 system it is very difficult transferring information back and forth between

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Surefire Tips to Identify Wound Repair Level

Wound repair causes a lot of confusion among medical billers and medical coders. It’s not always easy to identify the level of wound repair involved when reading an operative report. If you cannot quickly ascertain the level of wound repair, then you need to check for a few things. In order to identify wound repair level, you should look to the operative report for these key words and clues: -If a surgeon mentions single layer closure in his or her operative report, it is a simple repair. Simple repairs involve superficial wounds that involve “primarily epidermis, or dermis or subcutaneous tissues without significant involvement of deeper structures” according to the

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OMG Moves into It’s New 4500 Sq Ft Facility Near the Hospital

Outsource Management Group is pleased to announce that we have moved to our new, larger operations facility on Bloomfield Road near IU Health Bloomington Hospital. Outsource Management Group was originally born in March of 2003 in a small home office in Bloomington, Indiana. As the business began to quickly outgrow this office, it was moved into a much larger 1,200 square foot facility on 17th Street in early 2004. This move allowed the business to continue providing physicians with excellent results and grow it’s client base by 10 times, as well as increasing the billing staff by 6 times. As the client base and staff continued to grow, it became

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