The medical coding industry survives on reimbursements. As a medical coder, your practice’s reimbursements depend on how accurately you are able to apply the appropriate CPT, ICD-9, and HCPCS codes. What’s more, you have to keep up with the updates and modifiers to code for every procedure or service performed.Coding books can help, but books [...]
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September 16th, 2009 admin Multi-specialty coding is more of a necessity for surgery, where coders are required to work across specialties. As a ‘floater’, you will have to research and document multiple specialty CPT and ICD-9 codes to get reimbursement. Surgery has the most varied type of specialties which can include any and every part of the human body. [...]
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September 12th, 2009 admin Your job as a clinical coding professional requires you to analyze clinical statements and assign codes to them to get reimbursement from insurance companies and/or federal agencies. The 5-digit numerical codes help the insurance companies to do the required paper work to pay your healthcare organization or physician office. To get your office its deserved [...]
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