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07/29/2019

Delaying or making an error in a patient’s diagnosis can prove disastrous to the patient’s health and put your practice at risk for high-dollar malpractice claims. But staying extra alert to high-risk conditions, such as cancer, and closing the feedback loop can help you avoid costly outcomes.

07/29/2019
Prepare providers and staff for suicidal patients with a policy that backs them up when it becomes necessary to transfer these patients to appropriate psychiatric care — even against the patient’s wishes.
07/29/2019
Review your claims to ensure that you’re not making bundling errors. The government has ramped up its review and enforcement of this problem.
07/29/2019
Question: Some of my doctors are signing their charts for claims very late weeks, even months late. Can I submit these claims? If a chart is signed too long after the encounter, is it invalidated?
07/29/2019
Question: I have a common scenario that I encounter that I don’t know how to report. If my provider performs a technique to irrigate impacted cerumen in the clinic, but the removal of ear wax is not actually achieved, can I still report CPT code 69209 (Removal impacted cerumen using irrigation/lavage, unilateral)?
07/29/2019
Practices are seeing a downward trend in revenue for cerumen-removal services even as the total number of claims was buoyed in recent years with the arrival of CPT code 69209 (Removal impacted cerumen using irrigation/lavage, unilateral).

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