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Evaluation and Management 99217 Observation care discharge day management (This code is to be utilized to report all services provided to a patient on discharge from outpatient hospital “observation status” if the discharge is on other than the initial date of “observation status.” To report services to a patient designated … Read more
ICD 10 codes has increased lot of complication for medical coders. Since, ICD 10 is very different from ICD 9, the use of these codes has created lot of problem. Still there are lot of ICD 10 coding errors done by medical coders. Most of the errors are happening in coding Z codes, due to … Read more
Medicare payment is made for facility services and covered ancillary services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries by a participating ASC in connection with covered surgical procedures. Examples of facility services for which payment is packaged into the ASC payment for a covered surgical procedure include: Nursing, technician, and related services; Use of the facility where the surgical procedures are … Read more
CEUs or Continue Education Units are important for retaining our medical coding certification. AAPC and AHIMA are the best two organization which conducts coding certification exams. Once you get certification from these organization, you will have good growth in medical coding career. I have already share few blog post on earning or getting CEUs for … Read more
In 2018, we will be having a total of 314 CPT code changes. Also, we will be having two new modifiers as well in 2018. Today, we will checkout some of the new CPT codes added in 2018 in procedure codebook. The new CPT 2018 manual contains a total of 172 new codes and 60 … Read more
Professionals who want to take Medical Coding as a career always want to be called as Certified Professional Medical Coder. However, lots of us do not know the exact path of becoming a certified coder. During my initial days, I was unaware of any certification exams in the field of medical coding. Nevertheless, with the … Read more
Basics about Medical coding Professionals from healthcare background are taking medical coding as a career. To be an expert in medical coding, coders need to be certified from AAPC or AHIMA. Both AAPC and AHIMA certification have high value and one can easily get a nice job after being certified. Now, here we will just … Read more
CEUs stand for Continue Education Units. These are very important for AAPC or AHIMA Certified coders to retain their credentials. CEUs are need to be submitted every year or once in a 2 year depending on the Credentials you are carrying. I have seen many coders struggling to submit their CEUs at the end of … Read more
Yes, I am again going to share a website where you can easily get CEUs for AAPC and AHIMA. We have seen previously how we can get free CEUs by just attending webinars. Today also we are going to explore one more website where we can get more free CEUs for AAPC and AHIMA. We … Read more
CEUs (Continue education units) are important to retain your AAPC or AHIMA credentials. All the certified medical coders have to submit an allotted number of coding CEUs before few months of their renewal date. But, many times we are not able to get the required number of CEUs earned from AAPC or AHIMA. It is … Read more