Archive for The Day of May 11th, 2006
Archive for the Day of May 11th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of May 11th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during May 11th, 2006.
You can browse this day's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.
Reasons to Outsource Your Medical Billing Functions
If you’ve been feeling the stress and strain of too much paperwork and time spent preparing medical billing for your practice and not enough time is left to service your patients to help your practice grow, it might be time to consider outsourcing your medical billing claims. There are some sobering facts about medical billing claims that might give you pause to consider it might be time to outsource your medical billing. When you consider that healthcare providers averaged spending $7 billion annually just submitting claims to carriers. Another jaw dropping fact about your medical billing claims, is you might be missing being reimbursed for nearly 1/3 of your legitimate …
Medical Billing for Nutritional Counseling
With obesity among patients rising at an alarming rate, the continuing counseling of patients who need nutritional information, especially for controlling their diabetic conditions is also on the rise and it is fast becoming a common coding in medical billing. If it can be reimbursed and how it can be reimbursed are two dilemmas that many physicians are finding confusing. If you’re not getting reimbursed for your patient counseling, you’re losing money for your practice. When an individual nutritionist consults with a patient in a non-certified physician setting, you’ll most likely report sessions with 97802-97804. But if your practice has an American Diabetes Association-approved program, you may also use Medicare-specific …
