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Risk Management and compliance blog for healthcare
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Mediregs blog offers valuable advice for risk management, coding, compliance and auditing. Mediregs offers software to meet your healthcare compliance needs.
- Added on: Oct 21st, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Wolters Kluwer
- Listed in: Business Software
- Tags: risk management rac compliance software risk management software healthcare coding healthcare compliance
Recent Posts
2010 Electronic Procedure Codebook is ready
The Coding Suite team is pleased to announce that the 2010 HCPCS and CPT Codebook is available in pre-release format. Customers with access to the Coder's Resource Center, Coding & Revenue Resource Center, or Audit and Revenue Resourc...
Analysis of the 2010 CPT Code Changes
Fall is here, and along with the change in the weather comes the annual change to CPT codes. Evaluation and Management: The E/M Guidelines at the beginning of the Evaluation and Management chapter were updated to expand the definition of Concurrent C...
Drugs of abuse analysis: Proposed changes for 2010
Within the listing of 2010 HCPCS posted by CMS on November 2nd laboratorians will see two new G-codes that redefine coding of qualitative drug analysis billed to Medicare. read more...
Modifiers: It’s all about the money! – Part 2
In part 1 of this modifier series we identified and discussed the largest category—Global Package Modifiers, and the following modifier categories: GP, BUN, E/M only, #, Anes, Lab, and OTH. In part 2, we will explore the oth...
Seeing the "Gray" in E/M Coding, Part 2 - Review of Systems and Past Family Social History
In a previous blog I wrote, "Seeing the “Gray” in Evaluation and Management Coding – Chief Complaint and History of Present Illness," I had started a dialogue related to Chief Complaint (CC) and History of Present Ill...
Timely Claim Filing Rules: Impact on Re-Billing Inpatient Ancillary Services
One of the more difficult issues facing hospitals today is related to the timely claim filing rules associated with re-billing ancillary charges for denied inpatient stays. Under the RAC demonstration project, CMS allowed hospitals to re-bill their R...
