Archive for April, 2008

HSAs and Other Benefits – A scoop for Physicians

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Health Savings Accounts will change the way millions meet their health care needs because they are designed to help individuals save for qualified medical and retiree health expenses on a tax-advantaged basis. Patients and employers love Health Savings Accounts. Medical practice reimbursement staff should be asking plenty of questions about them. Reimbursement is no longer just about deductibles and copays. Knowing the ropes is not at all a problem because HSAs can sink your collections efforts and leave you with more uncollected A/R than you had before.

Tax-advantaged contributions can be made in three ways:

  1. The individual or family can make tax deductible contributions to the HSA even if they do not itemize deductions;
  2. The individual’s employer can make contributions that are not taxed to either the employer or the employee; and,
  3. Employers sponsoring cafeteria plans can allow employees to contribute untaxed salary through salary reduction.
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Co-Management Cases – Documentation and coding perfectly

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Every thing is done with compliance and a referral from an ophthalmologist to an ophthalmologist to an optometrist for post-op care and can be viewed as a kickback if your documentation is not right. If the work is been done an optometry or ophthalmology setting, physicians will be aware of the legal pitfalls co-management.

In order to facilitate appropriate and timely reimbursement for the services you provide to patients, it is important to have a good handle on the documentation that is needed for coding and billing purposes. MTS provides toughest coding and compliance issues for CT/CTAs and MRI/MRAs — and gives you solutions you can apply right away.

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Essentials of Wound Care Coding

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

With the immediate effect, when you remove a patient’s devitalized tissue, you can report one of two new CPT codes that specify the wound’s size. The codes better describe your work and improve your reimbursement. Typically you perform this kind of treatment on diabetic wounds and pressure ulcers. Coding for wound care interventions is no walk in the park. Between strict documentation requirements and the HHS Office of Inspector General ready to pounce on anything suspicious, your hospital outpatient department can’t afford to make one mistake.

MTS provides you the coding tips on traditional and new wound care technologies and the documentation checklist to back them up. Be prepared to walk away a brand new coder armed with valuable knowledge that can save your hospital lots of money. A new area of intervention should be explored which can make a major difference for clients. MTS solves all the issues of interventions and guides you about CBT and the many different ways to apply its interventions with the clients.

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Albuterol – J Codes need to be mastered and coded correctly

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Albuterol is a bronchodilator that relaxes muscles in the airways and increases air flow to the lungs. It is important to use albuterol regularly to get the most benefit. Get your prescription refilled before you run out of albuterol completely. Keep using all of your other medications as prescribed by your doctor. Albuterol is nothing new, but the correct way to code for it is changing once again. And you need to understand those changes so your reimbursement doesn’t suffer in 2008.

It is essential for medical coders to keep tabs on the changing guidelines to be followed are CMS regulations for ordering radiological studies and screening coverage issues, CPT and ICD-9 coding rules, and many more. Fresh coding and billing knowledge, stellar documentation tips, plus tips on what latitude radiologists have for performing additional diagnostic studies are some of the important strategies that we follow in giving best services on Albuterol E/M services.

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Non-Physician Practitioner services – E/M Chart Audit

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Conducting a chart audit is one of the best ways to uncover gaps between what you document and what you code. Poor results are an indicator that it’s time to review the E/M documentation guidelines. The complexities that arise with reporting with these physician extender services are not always a pretty picture and certainly don’t fetch the feds to discover major snafus in billing practices. Non-physician practitioners are using more of practices to ease the busy load and increase capacity.

This fulfillment has already been regarded as one of industry’s finest practices. A transcriptions service is a step in the right direction as far as measures to abide by industry-level best practices are concerned. MTS provides you the clear picture and will clear up confusion over billing guidelines for NPPs (physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives), and offer advice for reviewing those services for Medicare and private payer compliance.
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Effect of POA for Reimbursement

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

All claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute are hospitals or other facilities that are subject to a law or regulation mandating collection of present on admission information. Present on admission is defined as present at the time the order for inpatient admission occurs conditions that develop during an outpatient encounter, including emergency department, observation, or outpatient surgery, are considered as present on admission. POA indicator is assigned to principal and secondary diagnoses and the external cause of injury codes.

Issues related to inconsistent, missing, conflicting or unclear documentation must still be resolved by the provider. If a condition would not be coded and reported based on Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set definitions and current official coding guidelines, then the POA indicator would not be reported. CMS does not require a POA indicator for the external cause of injury code unless it is being reported as an “other diagnosis”. Is your Present on Admission indicator not yet collected, you should be? If your providers don’t understand POA documentation and what’s necessary for correct assignment of POA, your facility’s reimbursement could take a huge hit.

It is the hospital administration responsibility, not only to keep staff and other infections to a minimum, but also critical that if a patient presents with an infection upon admission to make sure Medicare know about it.

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ADHD – Strategies for children and Teens – Need to be known

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition that becomes apparent in some children in the preschool and early school years. It is hard for these children to control their behavior and/or pay attention. It is estimated that between 3 and 5 percent of children have ADHD, or approximately 2 million children in the United States. This means that in a classroom of 25 to 30 children, it is likely that at least one will have ADHD. The most common behavioral disorder and learning in childhood is ADHD which affects 4 to 12 percent of all the children in America. Without identifying early and proper treatment precautions, ADHD can have serious consequences which include failure in school, going in to depression, relationship failing substance abuse and disorder conduct.

A child with ADHD faces a difficult but not insurmountable task ahead. In order to achieve his or her full potential, he or she should receive help, guidance, and understanding from parents, guidance counselors, and the public education system. Trascriptions service offers information on ADHD and its management, including research on medications and behavioral interventions, as well as helpful resources on educational options.

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Narcotics prescription – know before it’s late of every chronic pain practice

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The specter of government officials is even prosecuting them for prescribing certain narcotics like oxycontin for chronic pain management practices. As the result of this the physicians from pain practices from all over the country have been charged with crimes and drug distribution to murder. Even some providers sight such risks as unacceptable and refuse to set down ongoing narcotic medications as they know the patients need. Considering this, a well intentioned practitioner can also end up with sued by the patients because of prescribing the addictive medication to them. This leaves the provider in to mal practice lawsuits for inadequate pain management for leaving many patients in intractable pain.

Fortunately there’s a way to protect practices from this situation as one that allows practitioners to provide best-practice pain management without ending up in a legal lurch. MTS provides you the walk - through the steps a pain practice can take to protect itself from government scrutiny and lawsuits

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Thorough documentation is critical for timely and appropriate reimbursement. One of the most important things is documenting all the services provided and linking them to the appropriate diagnosis code. MTS provides you information and strategies to maximize your chances of getting third-party payers to properly reimburse your SLP services.

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Primary Care Billing – Misstates and cautions

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Different codes can be billed by primary care physicians and someone who codes for a primary care physician understands the demand to be a jack of all trades. Coders have to be updated with all the new tips and techniques which emerge in order to ensure the practice of getting paid what it deserves. Be in touch with the insurance payers because each of them has their own version of utilization guidelines.

Good documentation practices lead to better Primary care billing procedure reimbursement and the main key for succeeding in the essentials. MTS correctly identifies the myriad of coding options for Primary care for different treatments and many more procedures. In order to facilitate appropriate and timely reimbursement for the services you provide to patients, it is important to have a good handle on the documentation that is needed for coding and billing purposes.
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Pregnancy Care – Effective Coding and Billing Processes

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Your hands are really in air when pregnancy care begins. Getting started with how to code for routine pregnancy services can be confusing without a full understanding of when pregnancy care begins and global package can no longer be billed and know how to handle these situations when they occur. But as a fact of life, there is no need to accept these kinds of confusions anymore.

Having a periodic review on proper techniques to stay in touch with the latest developments is paramount. This helps to boost your confidence and takes your wound care techniques up a notch. MTS will provide you the way with tactical methods for effectively coding and billing routine pregnancy services that will improve your office efficiency and productivity.
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