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    • E/M Coding

      Evaluation and management (E/M) coding is the use of CPT® codes from the range 99202-99499 to represent services provided by...

      March 27th, 2023 769 views 0 likes

    • Outpatient Facility Coding and Reimbursement

      Outpatient facility coding is the assignment of ICD-10-CM, CPT®, and HCPCS Level II codes to outpatient facility procedures or services...

      March 27th, 2023 692 views 0 likes

    • Telemedicine

      What Is Telehealth? Telehealth is the use of electronic data and long-distance communication technologies for healthcare and health-related services. Examples...

      March 27th, 2023 298 views 0 likes

    • Nonphysician Practitioners

      A nonphysician practitioner (NPP) is a healthcare provider who is not a physician but who practices in collaboration with or...

      March 27th, 2023 455 views 0 likes

    • ICD-10 Codes

      ICD-10 refers to the tenth edition of the International Classification of Diseases, which is a medical coding system chiefly designed...

      March 28th, 2023 682 views 0 likes

    • CPT Codes

      Integral to billing medical services and procedures for reimbursement, CPT® is the language spoken between providers and payers. Current Procedural...

      March 31st, 2023 1446 views 0 likes

    • Modifiers

      A medical coding modifier is two characters (letters or numbers) appended to a CPT® or HCPCS Level II code. The...

      March 27th, 2023 787 views 0 likes

    • Documentation Improvement

      Clinical documentation is the information a person responsible for a patient’s medical care enters in a medical record, which is...

      March 28th, 2023 302 views 0 likes

    • MACRA

      The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) is a law that reformed the Medicare payment system. MACRA...

      March 28th, 2023 321 views 0 likes

    • Risk Adjustment

      What Is Risk Adjustment ? Risk adjustment is a methodology that equates the health status of a person to a...

      March 28th, 2023 476 views 0 likes

    • Medical Coding Terminology

      If you come across a word like cryoglobulinemia and think, It’s Greek to me , there’s good reason for that....

      March 29th, 2023 427 views 0 likes

    • COVID-19: Physician Coding and Reporting Guidance

      Medical coding for COVID-19 requires staying up to date on a large number of changes, including new CPT®, HCPCS Level...

      March 29th, 2023 497 views 0 likes

    • HCPCS Codes

      Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) is a standardized code system necessary for medical providers to submit healthcare claims to...

      March 31st, 2023 1083 views 0 likes

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