Archive for The Day of March 22nd, 2007

Archive for the Day of March 22nd, 2007

Welcome to the medical billing blog archive for the day of March 22nd, 2007.

Here you will find links to every article added to the Outsource Management Group web site during March 22nd, 2007.

You can browse this day's archives by clicking the "More" button from any of the excerpts below.

Are You Guilty of Undercoding?

It’s a dirty little secret in the medical industry that many physicians fail to get the maximum reimbursement on their medical billing claims because they undercode their medical billing claims. Doing this on a frequent basis can cause your practice to lose up to one quarter of your reimbursement revenue. Undercoding also happens because the coding is left up to the staff in the office to perform and this method is guaranteed to have errors and omissions because the staff has no way of knowing exactly which services occurred in the exam room and which did not. Since notes don’t always get made at the time of the procedure, reimbursable

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