Archive for The Day of January 23rd, 2007
Archive for the Day of January 23rd, 2007
Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of January 23rd, 2007.
Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during January 23rd, 2007.
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What are NCCI Edits?
If you’re still uncertain what a mutually exclusive edit is and whether you’re using the latest NCCI version in your ob-gyn practice, you could be setting yourself up for future reimbursement hassles. The National Correct Coding Initiative edits are pairs of CPT or HCPCS Level II codes that Medicare (and many private payers) will not reimburse on an individual basis except under exceptional circumstances. Medicare applies the edits to services billed by the same provider for the same beneficiary on the same date of service. Example: The most recent edition of NCCI (version 12.2), effective July 1, includes an edit bundling therapeutic injection code 90772 (Therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic injection …
Get Your Inpatient Medical Billing Reimbursed Better
Ob-gyn patients present a lot of unique problems for medical billing. In the case of a pregnancy, the condition usually won’t have a long historical documentation. There isn’t a certain number of inpatient admission days for delivery patients that can be billing globally as each delivery is unique. You did to ascertain if the patient developed complications and also if the ob-gyn is also the treating physician or only making rounds with the patient. You will need to separate out the claim for some carriers accordingly. That will narrow down if you need to bill this claim globally or not. In the case that the patient is not admitted for …
