Dermatology Coding Tips
Medical Coding
With the prevalence of electronic health records (EHR), adequate and proper documentation and coding has become an important aspect of modern medicine. Althoug...
Clinical Laboratory Billing – Issues
Clinical Lab Billing
Examination of chemical and other types of specimens taken from a human body for assessment, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of a medical condition a...
Cardiology Coding and Billing
The human body is both an intricate and complex system – where each part and organ works in co-relation with the other. Medical coding and billing, though not as intricate an...
Clinical Laboratory Billing
What is a Clinical Laboratory?
According to the medical dictionary a clinical laboratory is “one where examination of materials derived from the human body (such as fluids, t...
Don’t Make These Common Medical Coding Mistakes
The hours and days spent on treating your patient all comes to naught if you are not paid for the services rendered. The satisfaction of having cured and/or saved a patient h...
What is Computer-Assisted Coding?
Computers are now an integral part of our daily lives – in fact it is very difficult to trace an aspect of our lives that is not touched in some form or other by computers an...
Billing for E & M Codes
Medical billing and coding is an important part of the healthcare business. It is not enough to just accurately diagnose and treat an illness; you also need to accurately doc...
Avoid these 10 Most Common HIPAA Violations
Electronic transfer of healthcare information is governed by a set of standards laid down in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996. Some of ...
CPT Codes for Telemedicine
Most people think ‘new technology’ when they hear the term ‘telemedicine’. However, in reality, telemedicine was developed about 5 decades ago – in order to diagnose and trea...
ICD 10 Codes for Renal Failure
What is CKD?
A problem that affects over twenty six million Americans, CKD (Chronic kidney disease) if not treated in time can lead to acute kidney injury or acute renal fail...
