Archive for the Week of December 22, 2005
Archive for the Week of December 22, 2005
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the week of December 22, 2005.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during the week of December 22, 2005.
You can browse this week's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.
Should You do Medical Billing for Excision or Incision?
Should You do Medical Billing for Excision or Incision? The two medical billing terms excision and incision sound quite similar, but they are actually quite different in definition. There are certain situations in which it can be very confusing whether an incision & drainage code should be used, or and excision code. If you know the rules, the question of when to bill for an excision over an incision & drainage is a simple medical billing rule. Let’s look at an example. Your surgeon has a patient that has a sebaceous cyst. He/she needs to check and see if that cyst is benign or malignant. The surgeon goes in with …
Medical Billing Bounty Hunters are your Friends
Medical Billing Bounty Hunters are your Friends We all know overpayments are a problem in the medical billing field, but what about the underpayments. Underpayments hinder medical practices much more than overpayments. Medical billing overpayments only get the spotlight because the federal government has something to loose if they overpay a medical practice. Now, however, underpayments are getting the attention they deserve from the United States. Currently, there is a recovery audit contract demonstration project in affect. This project is designed to improve the accuracy and quality of medical billing. During the project, if the auditors found a medical billing overpayment, they would get a percentage of that amount as …
