by Advize Admin | Jan 13, 2016 | Coding, Healthcare
CPT Defines critical care as the direct delivery, by a physician(s) or other qualified health care professional, of medical care for a critically ill or critically injured patient. A critical illness or injury acutely impairs one or more vital organ systems in such...
by Advize Admin | Dec 30, 2015 | Coding
New Year, New CPT Codes! CPT’s New Year’s Resolution isn’t to trim the fat, in fact, it’s expanding! New codes are being added for a variety of services as a result of data collected by the AMA. These new CPT changes are conducive to bundling...
by Advize Admin | Dec 28, 2015 | Coding
Health plans that want to “do” HEDIS should anticipate its common stumbling blocks — and take steps to overcome them. The following are some key hurdles that health plans face when preparing HEDIS data: What is HEDIS? When the physician staff begin to...
by Advize Admin | Dec 16, 2015 | Coding, Medical Record Auditing
There are many techniques to extracting data that can range from reviewing claim line billing data to actual medical record reviews. Relying exclusively on the claims data to analyze and identify atypical billing patterns or potential red flags is always challenging....
by Advize Admin | Dec 10, 2015 | Coding
Providers with a Primary and Secondary Specialty National Government Services Every healthcare provider has at least one taxonomy code that reflects his or her specialty. Esure that your provider’s specialty is accurately represented by this. Medicare Part B providers...
by Advize Admin | Dec 4, 2015 | Coding
Wound repairs require determining three separate components before selecting the appropriate CPT code: Layer – What is the depth/complexity of the wound repair? Location – Where on the body is the wound? Length – How long in centimeters is the wound repair? Layer...
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