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Last year, physician office EHR adoption increased only slightly. Was the apprehension about achieving meaningful use have any say in this? These days, EHR adoption is going on in full swing as is indicative from two bits of information fro...

What should your healthcare organization do if a nurse hands a patient someone else's discharge papers but promptly discovers the error and retrieves the protected health information? Would it have to report as a breach of unsecured PHI und...

The trend toward guidance-inclusive codes does not seem to be slowing. CPT 2010 outs 36145 and 75790 and instead instructs you to consider the following new surgical codes which include imaging: * 36147, * +36148. If the initial evaluation...

Come January 2010, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will unveil the new OASIS C with 47 new questions. For the uninitiated, OASIS C is the latest version of the OASIS data set, which replaces the current OASIS B1. January is...

Do you want to be a medical coding professional? The very first thing you should ask is What is medical coding? This medical profession is also known as medical classification, is a process of putting medical reports into a code of numbers....

The products and software available to busy medical practices and laboratories are always changing and improving as new and better technology comes on the market. Couple this with the national move and potential federal mandate in the area...

Medicare original plan always left some expenditure as it does not cover all the expenses that are made by you during your treatment. It is common to all types of insurance be it a health insurance or any other insurance. But here in the ca...

Generally, manual process of claim billing takes nearly 60 to 75 days for complete transaction whereas electronic process requires just 10 days! Electronic medical claim billing is continuously emerging business in medical services industry...

Physicians depend on medical billers and coders almost as much as they depend on having patients each day. Without a knowledgeable medial biller and medical coder, these physicians would not get paid and they could possibly face large fines...

Here are three reminders which will help you ensure you're starting 2010 with your privacy program on the right foot. Healthcare providers should not throw PHI, more so your paper, into the trash. You may think of patient privacy exclusivel...