If you listen to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the organization's plans to update evaluation and management (E/M) codes could simplify documentation and free up doctors’ time to ...

Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...

1. Understand the amount of time typically linked to each E/M level. 2. Document total time spent face-to-face with a patient, as well as time spent counseling or coordinating care. 3. Explain what ...

BOCA RATON, Fla--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading healthcare technology vendor Modernizing Medicine® today announced that the company’s electronic health records (EHR) systems, EMA and gGastro EHR, are ready ...

This year ushered in many changes affecting reimbursement for healthcare providers, but few are as important as the new Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

Medical coding and billing is a fairly complex process and requires that those working in the medical office to have extensive training to ensure proper billing of the insurance company. Often ...

Throughout my residency and my several years in private practice it became obvious to me that most of my colleagues do their billing and coding primarily out of habit rather than according to the ...

For the report, researchers with the company analyzed 2013-17 coding trends using data collected by DocuTAP’s urgent care customers. Here are six findings. 1. In 2016 and 2017, more than half of ...