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Would your practice's providers like an extra $24,000?

by: Julia Kyles, CPC Jun 8, 2017

Consider adding a scribe to your staff. Increased productivity and revenue are two benefits of employing scribes that Maxine Lewis outlines in the handout for her June 15 webinar on how to add scribes to the practice.

Physicians' groups: Ease the burden of prior authorization

by: Richard Scott Jun 7, 2017

Several physician groups are picking a fight about prior authorizations, something many providers reportedly view as an onerous, time-consuming process that interferes with patient care.

Doctor learns $300,000 lesson about billing drugs to Medicare

by: Laura Evans, CPC May 25, 2017

Normally the old adage, “waste not, want not,” would be a reliable rule of thumb to live by. But when you’re trying to stay compliant with Medicare billing rules for drugs and supplies, wasting leftover medications is often the better idea -- as federal prosecutors recently showed a corner-cutting neurologist.

How to lose $387,200 in a fax

by: Julia Kyles, CPC May 24, 2017

Two incidents at a health center operated by New York-based St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center show that sending a fax can turn an act that should have cost the organization a few cents into a settlement that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Audit trends: Watch those routine exam and diabetes codes

by: Laura Evans, CPC May 11, 2017

Good news – coders are cutting their ICD-10-CM coding error rate from an average of 15% just after the codes took effect in 2015 to 7% last year, attendees learned at this year’s AAPC Healthcon in Las Vegas.

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