August 11, 2023 | By Terry A. Fletcher BS, CPC, CCC, CEMC, CCS, CCS-P, CMC, CMSCS, ACS-CA, SCP-CA, QMGC, QMCRC, QMPM | Terry Fletcher Consulting, Inc. | Healthcare Coding and Reimbursement Consultant, Educator and Auditor | Podcast Host, CodeCast®, NSCHBC Edge Podcast, #TerryTuesday TCG Podcast | NAMAS Educational Speaker and Writer A question comes up often regarding…
June 30, 2023 | By Sonal Patel, CPMA, CPC, CMC, ICDCM One of my favorite childhood memories includes learning how to paint. Messy and fun, fingerpainting and potato printing held my attention for years. As I got a little older, I marveled at how I could create masterpieces by using the “paint by numbers”…
June 16, 2023 | By Rhonda Buckholtz, Owner, Coding and Reimbursement Experts Cataract surgeries are the most commonly performed procedure in ophthalmology, and there are many nuances when auditing that you need to keep in mind. If you stay current on the legal cases that are published, you will see that co-management of cataract…
A question that I get asked repeatedly, that I haven’t taken the time to address in a long time, came up on a webinar that I was doing for orthopedic executives and coders. What happens when a provider sees a patient and then later finds out that they were a resident of a Skilled Nursing…
May 26, 2023 | By Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT Most of us, if not all of us, have heard the statement, “If it isn’t documented, then it wasn’t performed.” While I know this is often the perspective of payors, I cringe when I hear this, thinking about all the providers that I work…