Archive for The Day of July 13th, 2006
Archive for the Day of July 13th, 2006
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of July 13th, 2006.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during July 13th, 2006.
You can browse this day's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.
Separate Billing Equals Better Reimbursements
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has improved medical billing reimbursement for Medicare patients. Currently, if your practice does medical billing for a Medicare exam on a newly 65 patient, you can also bill for cardiovascular screening tests and diabetes screening tests. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services realizes that separately billing for these screening services may seem incorrect. For this reason they are sending out plenty of medical billing information to explain how to bill for preventative care in the future. For instance, one of the things physicians can bill for separately is diabetes screening tests. As long as one risk factor is established and two of …
Are Your Using the Common Working Files With CMS?
The biggest medical billing problem is getting denied payment for a claim. A service for which many patients are denied is smoking or tobacco-use cessation counseling. Payers have a hard time paying for this service. The patient either has no coverage, or is only allowed a certain amount of counseling sessions for the smoking cessation purpose. What happens if another physician has already done medical billing for these counseling sessions? Chances are, you would not get paid. The centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have come up with a medical billing solution to let you know how many sessions a patient has already used. Let’s say you know your patient …
