Archive for The Day of June 28th, 2006
Archive for the Day of June 28th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of June 28th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during June 28th, 2006.
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Always Appeal Your Denied Medical Billing Claim
It is a well known fact that everyone is human and we are all prone to make mistakes from time to time. Often times, your medical billing personnel could end up miscoding an item just because they are not up on all of the latest rules regarding ICD-9-CM or CPT rules. Because of the chances for a miscoded item being so high, it is always important that you know how an appeal can help you when your medical billing claims get denied. You may already know this, but there are a good deal of practices that will actually lose a good deal of money every single year because they do …
Double Check Those Medical Billing Adjustments!
Your staff may be grumbling about the M0175 medical billing adjustments. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that all home health intermediaries are required to post their adjustments however the new adjustments were delayed in posting to the United Government web site and the CMS delayed the implementation of the adjustments. Your medical billing staff needs to check the website frequently to make sure you’re getting all the adjustments that are due, if you miss filing on an adjustment, you are literally throwing away money. If your in-house staff is overworked and having a hard time keeping up with the changes, new codes, deleted codes and the filing …
