Archive for The Day of October 20th, 2005
Archive for the Day of October 20th, 2005
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of October 20th, 2005.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during October 20th, 2005.
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How Much Do You Know About Patients PHI?
How Much Do You Know About Patients PHI? In medical billing, PHI is personal patient information that should only be shared with covered entities. It is not only wrong to release a patient’s medical billing PHI to outside sources, but it will ruin your business as well. An example of wrongly shared PHI is at the University of Missouri Health Care. Currently over 800 patients have a class-action lawsuit filed against them. The patients claim their confidential medical billing records were released to a home health provider called Option Care. Option Care apparently called these patients trying to sell them pricey medications. They also tried to convince them that their …
Getting Your Arteriogram Claims Paid
Medical Billing Tips – Getting Your Arteriogram Claims Paid After reading this section, you will be a bilateral renal arteriogram medical billing wiz. There are many code confusions with this surgical procedure. Some payers will not pay a cent if you bill the wrong code combinations. However, doing medical billing for renal arteriograms can be quite simple. There are two codes one should report when doing medical billing for a renal bilateral arteriogram. The current procedural terminology code 36245 should be reported twice. Then the Current Procedural Terminology code 75724-26 should be reported. Do not make the mistake in adding a G0275 to your claim because the renal arteriography already …
