Getting it right: HCC in Primary Care Rhonda Buckholtz CPC, CPMA, CDEO, CRC, CHC, COPC September 20, 2024 Many of us have a love/hate relationship depending on your role in healthcare. From a provider standpoint, most often we think of these as an administrative burden with no upside. However, a shift in thinking is needed…
March 1, 2024 | By: Crystal May, CCS, CPC, CDEO, CPMA, CRC, Approved Instructor Breaking Down ICD-10-CM 7th Characters for Traumatic Fracture Care: Coders often get overwhelmed with coding traumatic fractures, typically due to the numerous 7th characters available. But coding them isn’t as scary as it seems once you understand how they break down.…
December 15, 2023 | By Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT One area that keeps coming up in my conversations and education sessions is the definition and understanding, or misunderstanding, of the concept of a “problem addressed” during an encounter and how that is applied to E/M services. As treating practitioners document and as we…
November 1, 2023 | By Shannon O. DeConda We conducted a comprehensive survey to gain a better understanding of the ongoing debate in the industry about whether the E/M level of services is increasing or decreasing with the latest guidelines implemented in 2021. While we acknowledge that the survey isn’t scientifically conclusive, we urge organizations…
October 20, 2023 | By Jennifer McNamara, CCS, CPC, CDEO, CPMA, CRC, COSC, CGSC, COPC, AAPC Approved Instructor | CEO, Healthcare Inspired, LLC Every year we get updates to the Official Guidelines for Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting, and this year for reporting year 2024 we received an update regarding Chapter 21 for…