Maternity coding is moving away from reporting obstetric care as a single global package and toward a more detailed, phase-based approach. Recent CPT changes remove existing codes, introduce new codes, and revise others that affect how antepartum, labor, delivery, and postpartum services are captured. For practices providing or managing OBGYN medical billing services, the challenge Read more…
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8 Medical Coding Errors to Avoid
Both the government and private insurers are becoming increasingly stringent when it comes to medical billing practices, with audits revealing cases of both fraud and abuse. While providers deserve to paid in full for the services they provide, it is essential that billing practices that might be construed as fraudulent or abusive be avoided. This Read more…
Tips for Telehealth Coding
There’s nothing more frustrating than rendering service and not being paid. Here are a few tips to help you properly conduct and document telehealth services. Telehealth is the new normal of the American healthcare industry, especially in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. But, there’s nothing more frustrating than rendering service and not being Read more…
How to Build Neurodiversity Smart EHR Workflows
Most EHR systems were built for efficiency. Not nuance. They capture diagnoses well. They struggle with developmental texture. Clinicians often know when something feels important. A literacy pattern. A sensory issue. A social communication difference. The chart does not always make space for it. That gap matters. A neurodiversity-smart workflow does not require a new Read more…
How Telemedicine Expansion Will Affect Physician Practices
Telemedicine is essentially digitally-enabled healthcare, facilitated by telephone, video, and other telecommunications technologies. Although being around for decades, it only received due recognition after the outbreak of the deadline COVID-19 pandemic, in which the world and literally walks of life were put to a halt. Interestingly, all major players across the U.S. healthcare industry had Read more…
Concierge Medicine: An Alternative to Direct Primary Care Model
Although concierge medicine is more affordable, it is still not as widespread as DPC. Healthcare is delivered through several different models. There is a traditional model under which the physicians see large numbers of patients every day and then bill their services to insurance companies. However, in the past few years, a new care delivery Read more…
9 Specialties That Enhance Care With Telemedicine
Telemedicine is an overarching technology, which goes beyond benefitting primary care doctors alone to serve several benefits for specialty practices. Telemedicine is gaining increasing popularity in the U.S. healthcare industry, and for all the right reasons. It has evolved as an effective and convenient care delivery model that not only increases the efficiency of medical Read more…
Job Market for Young Physicians
Final-year residents are extremely high in demand in the U.S., fundamentally because they are the future of medical practice in the country. Owing to this, they are being choosy about what kind of career options should they avail and when to avail them? According to Merrit Hawkins, a national physicians search and consulting firm, there Read more…
Remote Patient Monitoring Emerging Growth and Quality Opportunities
CMS is confident that RPM is accompanied by substantial growth and quality opportunities. Healthcare systems have undergone a rapid transformation with the advent of digital technologies in the healthcare industry. Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) has evolved as a widely acknowledged healthcare solution, expanding the expertise of care teams beyond the hospital environment. Chronic care management Read more…
The Biggest Healthcare Data Breaches of 2020 – How to Avoid it.
Data breaches are occurring in the healthcare sector at an alarming rate. Ranging from cyberattacks on the IoT devices to failure to update the latest technologies, the healthcare sector has proven itself as highly vulnerable to cyberattacks as well as accidental data exposure. What remains imperative to note is that data breaches not only cost Read more…