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The Refresh With YES: CPT Skull Base Surgery Learning Path teaches coders and auditors how to apply CPT skull base surgery codes and guidelines. The first part dives into skull anatomy, and the next part discusses applicable CPT coding conventions and guidelines.
The White House announced that the declaration of national emergency, as well as the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration, would both end on May 11, 2023, prompting a guideline change for Z11.52, screening for COVID-19.
Given that severe malnutrition MCCs increase the dollar amount in Medicare reimbursements, overcoding is a potential risk for all healthcare organizations. Review our recent case study findings where we present compliance, standardization, and improvement opportunities to one client hospital.
In the medical coding field, it’s critical to maintain quality and productivity standards. Facilities open themselves up to compliance risks and lost revenue without these standards. Here are a few best practices to increase your Outpatient coding team’s quality and productivity.
Regular healthcare coding audits are necessary to run a compliant, successful healthcare organization. While the reason for the audit may differ, the overall checklist for conducting a successful audit remains relatively the same.
The OCR performs a HIPAA compliance audit to confirm that covered entities and business associates protect and properly utilize PHI. Here are the factors and scenarios that trigger an audit.
Video can be used for various reasons, from educating corporate coding teams on the latest medical coding updates, reinforcing clinical documentation guidelines to providers, and helping patients understand complex medical procedures.
Medical necessity denials can’t be ignored, as they can lead to significant revenue loss and compliance issues. These best practices for clinical documentation improvement, education, and standardization will help providers overcome their medical necessity denials.
Anticipating coding quality strengths and weaknesses is a great benefit trending reports offer when it comes to coding compliance audits. A coding team can remain accurate and competitive by taking advantage of the benefits trending analysis has to offer.
With the rise of health-related websites, communications, and applications, now’s the time to review how sensitive patient data is shared and protected with these evolving technologies.