Archive for April, 2008

Ambulatory surgical Centers – sizzling Topic

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Getting started on the right way with every claim starts with the coder and his new updated techniques. There was a lot change for Ambulatory Surgical Centers (ASCs) this year and everyone involved in this facility, coders and managers are also feeling it. The main question arises that does your physician documentation have what it needs to support your claims and do your codes match the physician’s codes?

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 Ambulatory surgical facility E/M services. MTS provides you all the coding tips and billing guidance for ASC coding and have a documentation checklist to back them up. Be prepared to walk away a brand new coder armed with valuable knowledge that can save your clinic lots of money.
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Case Management Model – Best way to create – to ruin for the top notch

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Many case managers also think over the relationship of their role to the rest of the interdisciplinary team, because the ideal situation involves nicely balanced workloads and caseloads. And the thing that knows all too well that changing models may result in the addition or elimination of specific job titles. A lot of variation exists between case management models, so knowing which model is best for you and can be a constant saga of trial and error.

Case management assigns the administration of care for an outpatient individual with a serious mental illness to a single person (or team); this includes coordinating all necessary medical and mental health care, along with associated supportive services. MTS also deals in to case management models in a way that makes sense to you, so that you can walk away with common-sense strategies and ideas for the best model to incorporate into your practice.

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The area of healthcare involving the completion of paperwork outlining patients’ billing histories and submission of them to the individuals’ insurance companies for reimbursement is known as ‘medical billing.’ Within medical billing, there exists the practice of ‘medical coding’ whereby codes are assigned to medical procedures and diagnoses in order to relay in a universally accepted medical language–information to the insurance company or, in some cases, governmental agencies and/or consulting firms.

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Coding and Compliance issues handling – CT/CTAs and MRI/MRAs

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Medicare is paying close attention to CT and MRI documentation and if the doctors are rusty on those requirements or having question like how to code CT/MRI orthographies or if the administration of oral contrast might considered as a case study – heading towards the radiology coders, the physician’s claims could be suffering. A firm grip on the complete process is essential otherwise it is easy to lose your practice’s hard-earned payments to medical necessity denials in today’s healthcare world where reimbursement is very important.

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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Laws on Wage and Hour – Must for Nurse Managers

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The federal wage and hour law, technically known as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), has been around since the 1930s. Yet despite this long history, misconceptions about these very basic rules persist in many medical practices. Here are some basic concepts to keep your practice on the up and up. Healthcare providers have become a general target of minimum wage and overtime pay investigations and lawsuits. And accountability can easily involve hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hence, Sympathetic wage and hour rules are invaluable to nurse managers in helping their employers fulfill.

MTS identifies and keeps you update on basic wage and hour rules and also discuss issues of particular importance to nurse managers — including who is exempt from minimum wage and overtime pay, what constitutes hours worked, special rules for certain kinds of providers, and common mistakes often made.

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Genetic Counseling on the other side related to Financial Impact

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Genetic counseling is the process of:

* evaluating family history and medical records

* ordering genetic tests

* evaluating the results of this investigation

* Helping parents understand and reach decisions about what to do next

Genetic tests are done by analyzing small samples of blood or body tissues. They determine whether you, your partner, or your baby carry genes for certain inherited disorders.

When a child is born with a genetically caused illness, financial implications of managing this illness on parents along with life-altering emotional hardships families experience minds too. So, it’s better not to fall this topic by the wayside in your patient advocacy and counseling role. Unlike your parents, you may also have the option of genetic testing. These tests identify the likelihood of passing certain genetic diseases or disorders (those caused by a defect in the genes — the tiny, DNA-containing units of heredity that determine the characteristics and functioning of the entire body) to your children.

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Healthcare Information Technology – Making great sense out of it

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Now a day, the medical healthcare organizations are spending money more and more on healthcare information technology (HIT), so it would be better and would get good product. Lot of qualified doctors and physicians are tired of software vendors pitching products using vocabulary which cannot be understood. Those who are the HIT consumers might be embarrassed to ask the sales representatives to spell out every acronym but with come knowledge on the terminology can make the difference between purchasing a top line product or a bottom line product.

Knowing about the acronyms such as RHIO, EMR and CPOE and explain confusing synonyms show the right person to deal to improve the earnings and can walk away with valuable information every buyer should know about HIT solutions. It is not easy to go ahead with coding, billing, and reimbursement in the CVIR area, but one can learn tips & techniques that make the charge master part a little easier when it comes to the bottom line. Thorough documentation is critical for timely and appropriate reimbursement.

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Student Health Records - Legal Requirements

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Public schools are more frequently employing school nurses to address student health issues by the awareness of student health issues and special education identification. Based on this many schools don’t realize the entire door they open to student privacy violations when they do that and especially the legal requirements that apply to student health care information are not always clear.

The SHCC can make copies of student medical records with written consent of the patient. Medical records of UF students are kept 10 years following enrollment inactivity or graduation. If a student returns to enroll at UF within that timeframe, his/her records are reactivated. After 10 years of inactivity, the medical records are shredded and burned in accordance with regulations. Immunization records, however, have been stored on microfilm since 1987, and these will be retained for the convenience of current and former students who need access to this information.

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Update on Critical NCCI

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

As the world is changing according to the new strategies, the doctors and physicians can say farewell to troublesome DEXA edits. Medicare’s National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) latest version is announced. It’s up to us to know how to implement each and every one of them as the new CCI edits comes out every quarter. Ignoring CCI edits can cost the practice or facility hundreds and thousands of dollars. But for once, there’s some good news from NCCI. Thanks to Version 14.1, effective April 1, 2008, you can once again report DEXA and absorptiometry codes 77080-77081 and 77083 with brachytherapy codes 77750-77799.

Make sure you know every new CCI edit that affects your coding practice. But CMS didn’t stop with its deletion — as usual; most of the changes in this version of CCI were new edits to the already expansive CCI edit database. The compliance has already been regarded as one of industry’s best practices. Transcriptions services is a step in the right direction as far as measures to comply with industry level best practices is concerned.

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Strategies on Therapy Revenue Enhancement – Skilled Nursing Facility

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

Coming to a conclusion of how Medicare requires your skilled nursing facility to bill for therapy can be challenging to develop a smooth process for therapy operations and even more confusing for the requirements. In as much as they can pack into an hour, discussing about case management and operational strategies that will have your SNF’s bottom line thanking you in no time. Make therapy services have a positive impact on your SNF’s bottom line.

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You don’t have to be out of the coding loop anymore. Medical Transcription Services focus on how to save the client’s time and cost related to coding and transcription, so that you are attained with the quality oriented result. In order to provide clients with price benefits and serve better with lower prices than half of what local US based services offer, we have outsourced our coding and transcribing services to our offshore center in India.

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Improving the Role in Safe Sourcing and identification and Pharmacist`s Awareness – Counterfeit Drugs goes on its way

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

The counterfeit drug trade is growing at an annual rate of 13 percent and is predicted to be a $75 billion market by 2010. Even if you are aware of the problem, you still may need some extra savvy to spot the bad apples right away. Any pharmacy or hospital that believes it’s immune to this problem is living in a dream world. Getting an overview of the worldwide counterfeit drug trade, with an emphasis on the US market and better methods to improve drug security makes our clients worthy.

In addition, learn overt and covert methods the industry uses to protect pharmaceuticals, the growth of radiofrequency product identification, and who to contact if you suspect a drug product is not authentic. 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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