Archive for The Day of June 30th, 2006
Archive for the Day of June 30th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of June 30th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during June 30th, 2006.
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Auditory Rehabilitation Receiving Medical Billing Reimbursement
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have recently made it known that the reimbursement for procedural code 92626 is going to be seeing increases by a rather large amount. To clarify a little bit further, the reimbursement to providers for such a procedure will come in at approximately four times the amount being received currently. This should make any of the providers of language, speech and hearing much happier when it comes to medical billing. This entire thought of reimbursement may be a lot clearer if it is broken down a bit. For example, the code 92626 which is known for the description of Evaluation of Auditory Rehabilitation Status; …
Tightening the Reigns on Medical Billing Claims
It has recently come to the attention of the Cahaba GBA Regional Home Health Intermediary that it is necessary to tighten the reigns on medical billing claims. Therefore, a study has been underway to try to find out exactly why certain claims have been denied. Through the course of this study, there have been a good number of findings to show that there have been denials of various diagnosis codes within the medical billing process. Further studies by the Cahaba GBA have revealed that a large amount of the denied claims had actually shared the same diagnosis codes. Included in the list of diagnosis codes that are often denied are: …
