Does your healthcare facility or organization require additional medical coding services; help with your ICD-10 conversion; or just to assist with medical records backlogs and transcription tasks? Continue reading
Archive | 2014
Remote Medical Coding Companies—Solving Your Medical Records Backlog
Remote medical coding companies, like Professional Dynamic Network of Chicago, offer healthcare providers essential services, specifically, remote medical records coding, transcription and billing services. Even large hospitals have considerable difficulty in keeping up with medical records coding and billing Medicaid, Medicare and insurance companies. Continue reading
Inpatient Hospital Coding
Inpatient Hospital Coding is a service that a Medical Record Coder is able to provide to hospitals, physicians offices and any other medical institutions needing it. Such professionals have a high level of expertise in their field and they know very well how to code multiple subject areas, if not all areas, that are related to the services offered at a specific hospital or location. They are very experienced with many types of coding conventions including, ICD-9, CPT procedures and HCPCS supply and service codes. On top of that, they also have experience with anatomy and medical terminology. Continue reading
General Inpatient Coding Rules And Regulations
Inpatient coding rules and their implementation vary according to the extent of detail in a specific medical case. However, there are a few guidelines that are basic and are essential in all coding practices. Continue reading
Are You Equipped to Handle all of Your Outpatient Medical Coding?
Essentially the job description is relatively constant between inpatient medical coding and outpatient coding. Although, it is generally thought that outpatient medical coding is less challenging than inpatient coding. But that’s not why there is an influx of outpatient medical coding. Continue reading
Understanding Outpatient Coding and Reporting
There are a great number of opportunities in the Health Information Management are that can save your practice or hospital valuable resources. Outsourcing your inpatient and outpatient medical coding are just 2 instances that streamline your facility. But what is medical coding? What is the difference between Inpatient and Outpatient coding? If the terms sound a little futuristic for you, good! Because in the Health Information Management field, the future is here! Continue reading
Outsource Your Coding to a Medical Coding Company
The field of medical transcription has grown exponentially in recent years such that finding a medical transcription company or medical coding company for a medical professional or a medical institution’s needs has become less challenging. With the advent of remote working and the development of outsourcing solutions, the options have become more varied and the supply of medical coders has perhaps become greater than the demand. Continue reading
Write an effective Medical Coding Resume
When applying for a medical coding job you want to submit the most effective resume you can; one that exhibits your skills, accomplishments, and experience. You want your medical coding resume to convey exactly how your knowledge and experience will add to their organization. Continue reading
The CMS RAC Audit Process
Certainly by now you are familiar with the CMS RAC program. How familiar depends on whether or not you have had the good fortune to go through this process. Regardless if you’ve been audited or not, you should know a little about the process for your own protection as a provider of Medicare or Medicaid fee-for-service patients. Continue reading
Debunking The Myths Of CMS RAC Program
The CMS RAC program was designed to correct billing errors mainly caused by medical coding errors, not to prevent healthcare providers from getting what’s due to them. The Medicare and Medicaid systems are fraught with fraud, waste and abuse in addition to honest medical and billing coding errors. Often times these errors actually cost the provider money, which is identified and recovered through the RAC program. Continue reading