10 blunders to avoid in cardiology billing

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3. Upgrading coding changes manually If you had started introducing all these changes into your billing system manually six months ago, then you would have been in a comfortable position. But at this juncture, with ICD 10 launch coming up in 2015, manual coding upgrading can prove disastrous for your cardiology practice.

4. Selecting the wrong billing service provider With billing demanding medical experts and billing consultants who have knowledge of cardiology sub-categorization, it is of utmost importance to

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10 blunders to avoid in cardiology billing

Published on Jun 6, 2014

Andersen Keen

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Cardiology is a specialty care and like all non-primary care domains of healthcare it requires billing experts and experienced teams of medical practitioners to complete cardiology-specific billing without errors and losses. While sub-categorization of cardiology services have safeguarded patient interest and improved claims processing by insurance carriers, cardiologists have suffered great financial losses and from process blunders which has attracted medical audits. Interventional cardiology, echo-cardiology, surgery & transplant and general clinical cardiology are some of the subcategories which have specific HSPC, CPT and ICD care and diagnostic codes. With such complex billing, cardiology billers must take precautions to avoid the following blunders – See Continue : http://www.medicalbillersandcoders.com/pressrelease_articles.aspx?ArticleId=615

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