Browsing: medical Coding

Lungs are a sophisticated mechanism that expands and contracts hundreds of times daily to take in oxygen and expel carbon…

Miscoding, or incorrect coding, is possible in any medical practice that does not provide continuing CPT code education to their…

Liver is internal organ in human body which is located on the right side of your belly, under your ribs.…

In ICD-10, there are seven possible characters for filling out a code. The first three offer the diagnosis category. The…

The United States HCFA, now known as CMS, supported a preliminary design effort to replace volume 3 of the ICD-9-CM…

Proper HCC coding is critical for predicting future healthcare financial resources and claiming adequate reimbursement. The HCC model is a…

Many family doctors give wound care to nursing home patients. Proper coding and billing for such wound care are critical…

Medical coding is the basic step in the medical billing process. It entails assigning standardized codes to medical diagnoses and…

According to the CPT book, a Modifier is a “method to record or indicate that a service or process that…

American Medical Association adds new, amended, and removed codes to the CPT code set, along with logic and rationale for…