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The CodeCast Podcast | Medical Billing & Coding Insights
The Business Side of Medicine ~ Coding, Reimbursement and Compliance for Physician Practices
National Speaker and Healthcare Consultant, Auditor and Educator, Terry Fletcher CPC, CCC, CEMC, CCS, CCS-P, CMC, CMSCS, , ACS-CA, SCP-CA, QMGC, QMCRC, QMPM knows from over 30 years medical reimbursement industry experience that Coding, Billing and Compliance for physician practices and hospitals can be tough to navigate. Her CodeCast® Podcast series will share insights to current rules and regulations the Medicare payer requires, along with Commercial Insurance plans’ rules and reimbursement challenges. Discover revenue opportunities to maximize reimbursement in your medical practice, focusing on different medical specialties and platforms each episode.
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What’s The Latest Medicare Update?
August 15, 2023
Medicare has been making some under-the-radar updates that provider practices need to know. You could be seeing ineligible patients, with no current ID card, coming in for services. You could …
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Can Pre-Op Visits Be Billed?
August 8, 2023
A question that Terry often fields is one regarding billing for pre-op visits. Should these visits be billing? There is conflicting published guidance on this question from different sources. Terry …
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Registered Dietitians and Nutritionist Coding and Billing
August 1, 2023
When a dietician or nutritionist sees a patient, their services may not covered for bariatric patients aka obesity. It is a nice option to have, but patients, would most likely, …
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Using SDoH (Social Determinates of Health) Correctly
July 25, 2023
Social Determinates of Health are important secondary diagnoses to help explain a patient’s circumstances when it comes to access to medical care, adherence to medical advice, and environmental factors that …
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Documentation Requirements for Audio-Only Visits
July 18, 2023
CMS has not addressed a template for audio-only Telehealth visits. Therefore, Terry offers some best practices for audio-only documentation in order to stand up to and be compliant with payer …
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ICD10CM Revisited on Laterality
July 11, 2023
Terry revisits the rule on reporting specificity in the laterality of a diagnosis, when the physician or QHP only gives us unspecified. What can we do as coders? As a …
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Defining a QHP
July 4, 2023
QHPs are often certified and must be licensed. Trying to use clinicians that cannot “independently report services to payers” as QHPs will not only flag you for an audit, but …
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Revisiting The EMR E/M Template
June 27, 2023
On an abbreviated edition of the CodeCast, it’s “out with the old and in with the new” as Terry gives some quick tips on updating your outdated EMR template relating …
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What are you looking for in an audit?
June 20, 2023
This week on the CodeCast podcast, Terry discusses external audits, and what you should be looking for when moving from internal to external audits. What are your objectives? Are they …
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Patient Initiated Services: What does it mean?
June 13, 2023
Many virtual visit options are available to patients when they initiate patient-to-physician contact. The definition seems to be lost in all of the Telehealth visits, so in this week’s CodeCast …
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Appropriately Reporting 99211 Services
June 6, 2023
Reporting 99211 can bring additional revenue into your practice. Appropriately reporting 99211 services can also improve documentation in a practice. Terry discusses the qualifiers for the 99211, such as having …
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Top 10 Telehealth Changes NOW!
May 30, 2023
On this edition of the CodeCast Podcast, Terry gives you the top ten Telehealth changes to implement or get ready for now. Now that the PHE is over, there’s no …
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Should you code the definitive condition or signs/symptoms? [Fixed Audio]
May 23, 2023
There is an ongoing debate about ICD-10-CM and diagnosis coding: should we code the patient complaints, the signs and symptoms, or go straight to the definitive diagnosis? When is it …
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A Warning About AI Charting
May 16, 2023
It’s important to take stock of what could be lost in a technological transition from physician charting to “Dr. Echo” charting as it is referred to. AI (Artificial Intelligence) chatbots …
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Can I Really Bill For That?
May 9, 2023
With the current climate of audits, medical practices must have knowledgeable healthcare professionals who are up-to-date with regulatory guidance, CPT rules, ICD-10-CM rules, and all things related to pre-PHE and …
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Denials Management and EM Realities
May 2, 2023
In this episode of the CodeCast Podcast, Terry talks about denial management codes, finding the patient’s MBI number, and understanding the realities of some Digital EM visits and ChatGBT responses …
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Top 10 Tuesday Q&A – Are You Compliant With Regulatory Guidance?
April 25, 2023
There is so much published guidance out there for medical practices and professionals to use when setting policies in their offices. Every practice should have a compliance program, but most …
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Reporting add-on codes with no base code
April 18, 2023
In this episode of the CodeCast, Terry discusses the challenges of reporting an add-on service when no base code was performed. Terry also covered urgent care versus retail care rules, …
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