Archive for the Week of May 25, 2017

Archive for the Week of May 25, 2017

Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the week of May 25, 2017.

Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during the week of May 25, 2017.

You can browse this week's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.

View provider enrollment as a critical part of your RCM

Provider enrollment with payers is crucial, as it ensures proper reimbursement for services rendered, according to Patrick Doyle, senior vice president of Newport Credentialing Solutions. Mr. Doyle shared the following tip with Becker’s Hospital Review: “To ensure every collectible dollar is received, provider enrollment must become an integral part of the revenue cycle process. Best practices should include regular payer audits to validate provider participation status, rigorous payer application follow up, monitoring of licenses and expiring documents, Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare re-attestations and re-enrollments. Furthermore, understand your at-risk revenue against your open enrollments. These are charges billed by providers when their enrollment status is in-process. In-process enrollments for payers

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2018 ICD-10-PCS Code Changes

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has released the code changes for ICD-10-PCS coding system. ICD-10-PCS codes were adopted under HIPAA for hospital inpatient healthcare settings to use for reporting procedures. Their guidelines help healthcare providers and coders to accurately identify procedures to be reported on healthcare claims. The 2018 updates will reflect services from Oct. 1, 2017 through Sept. 30, 2018, so be sure to update your medical records to account for the changes. There were 75,789 codes in 2017. In 2018, the number jumps to 78,705…   Continue reading this article  

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