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06/06/2014

Let the new Office of Inspector General (OIG) report showing widespread downcoding serve as a warning: You gain nothing — not even protection from auditors — from the practice, which can be reduced by getting coders and doctors to work together.

06/06/2014
A new survey shows that health insurance exchanges plans are causing big problems in physician practices — requiring that you tighten up your management of patient verification and payments.
06/06/2014

Your Medicare patients got a new preventive screening benefit recently: Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) testing.

06/06/2014

Question: Can we use a locum tenens nurse practitioner to fill in for one of our NPs while she is on maternity leave?

06/06/2014

Avoid losing thousands of dollars because of underbilling for services with routine chart audits.

06/06/2014

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) found plenty of upcoding in its recent report on E/M errors. And much of it comes from a certain type of provider.

06/06/2014

Use this tool, provided by Nancy Enos, consultant and coding educator at Enos Medical Coding in Warwick, R.I., to ensure proper E/M coding. 

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