Project reached 1.7 million people last year. The fanfare over the Senior Medicare Patrol has died down since the program’s debut in 1997, but the fraud-fighting initiative is still going strong — and racking up millions in related recoveries. In [...]
Make sure you aren’t next. As summer ends and the season turns to fall, a look back at the last few months reveals a skyrocketing rate of HIPAA breaches. To make sure you aren’t included in the next batch of [...]
Write up an incident response plan today to avoid problems later on. Data security remains a hot topic in healthcare today. Because try as you might to prevent them, cyber attacks do happen. With the breach comes the possibility of [...]
Tip: Encryption remains a critical deterrent to hackers. Try as you might to prevent them, HIPAA breaches occur anyway. With the breach comes the loss of data security, which can overwhelm a practice, both financially and professionally. And with the [...]
ICD-10 will help you report the service more accurately. When your otolaryngologist removes a foreign body from a patient’s nose or ear, you currently have a single diagnosis code for each situation. That will change after ICD-10’s implementation in [...]
930 (Foreign body on external eye) 930.1 (Corneal foreign body) 931 (Foreign body in the ear) 932 (Foreign body in the nose) 933.0 (Foreign body in pharynx) 933.1 (Foreign body in larynx) 934.0 (Foreign body in trachea) 934.1 (Foreign body [...]
Now's the time to advocate for your industry.For home care providers, it's an increasingly difficult world with a lot of competition. But there are opportunities to succeed if you're proactive, said speakers at NAHC's 2012 Annual Meeting & Expo-sition in [...]
Hint: When billing both well and sick child visit, put modifier 25 on the sick visit code. Want to collect for both a procedure and an E/M service, or a sick and well visit performed during the same appointment? Then [...]
Question: I'm a bit confused. When reporting a foreign body removal of the nose, would I use the CPT® code 30300? I also see an ICD-9 code for nasal foreign body removal of 98.12. I was told not to code [...]
Question: I'm a bit confused. When reporting a foreign body removal of the nose, would I use the CPT® code 30300? I also see an ICD-9 code for nasal foreign body removal of 98.12. I was told not to code [...]
