Medical Coding Archive

The Social Doctor: Being a Physician in the Age of Social Media

How Clinics Can Leverage Social Media:  Being an Online Shaman For a long while it was felt that the medical profession was one way or another prisoner to the so-called Parkinson’s Law, proposed by the scholar of public

4 MEDICAL CODING ERRORS WHICH MIGHT ARREST YOUR RCM CYCLE!!!

4 Crucial Medical Coding Pitfalls To Avoid “It’s very frustrating; healthcare is the only industry where you don’t know what it’s going to cost until it’s done.”  So said a frustrated victim of heart palpitations, who ironically felt he was a

Mind It!! Terrorists & Medical Coding Violators….

Healthcare Fraud:  On the Wanted List The United States Department of Justice Considers The Following Three The Worst Form of Culprits, not necessarily in that order: 1.   Terrorists. 2.  Violent Crime Doers. 3.  Healthcare Fraud Perpetrators !!!!!! Now, how and when the

The Trinity of Causes for Surgical Billing Errors!!

As anyone who has done surgical coding would vouch, it happens to be one of the trickiest medical subspecialties to code.  Coding for minor procedure and endoscopies, coding for co-surgeons, appropriate usage of modifiers 54 and 55,

A Brief Explanation of Combination Codes – The BillingParadise Way

Infographics Content Source- http://www.prweb.com/releases/nuesoft/icd-10survey/prweb9865911.htm ICD-10 will be soon upon us, and it is highly likely that a majority of the new food for thought will go undigested when the time comes.   Besides the 5-fold increase in the number

Exhibiting Discipline in Using Ctrl Copy + Ctrl Paste in EHRs

The Story in Short: Few these days can argue against the truth that EHRs have become an indispensable part of the healthcare delivery system.  But like any new-age technological advancement, they have their set of pros and cons,

24 Hours Billing Office- An Info Graphics on Healthcare Revolution

The healthcare industry is evolving. And to be a part of the change, physicians will have to quicken the pace of their workflow and revamp their billing process. Eight hour workdays with countless coffee breaks are not

Health is Wealth – Very True in the Case of a Clinical Practice

We all must be familiar with the adage, Health is Wealth; ironically in today’s world this can be taken at face value, more so for the healthcare industry than any individual.  If you are a practice manager,

How the Payer Contract Should Be?

Collection Formulla The collection rate of a healthy clinic, often defined by the following formula, is expected to be above 95%, but more often than not many a practice bleed a lot of money due to improper preparation

EHR-Is It a Good Word for Medical Profession or Billing Practices?

The Case For Cloud Based EHRs in Medical Billing – An infographic by the team at Physician Practice Revenue Cycle Managment Services EMRs, when they first emerged, were indeed great news for the medical profession as