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White Papers
Automated Cardiology Procedure Documentation Increases Efficiency, Revenue Recovery and Coding Compliance
by Crystal DeSardo, CPC, CCS-P
Cardiology procedures are performed by a number of caregivers within multiple modalities - physicians, nurses and technologists are all involved at different stages of the patient encounter and documentation chain. Echocardiograms, stress tests, and other procedures can vary in coding complexity, and the current cardiology documentation process is fraught with redundant steps that increase the possibility for error.
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Automated Gastroenterology Procedure Documentation Increases Efficiency, Revenue Recovery and Coding Compliance
By Linda Parks, MA, CPC, CMC, CMSCS
Reductions in gastroenterologists' fees by 50 percent or more have drastically changed the economics of running a practice. Doctors must maximize their productivity, hospitals and clinics have to cut costs, and business offices must ensure that every reimbursable service is submitted and paid.
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Automated Orthopedics Procedure Documentation Increases Efficiency, Revenue Recovery and Coding Compliance
by Heidi Stout, CPC, CCS-P
Despite multiple reviews by multiple parties, many operative notes are still submitted with uncorrected errors, omissions, and ambiguities. The problem is particularly severe in Orthopedics, which can involve over 1000 CPT codes in the musculoskeletal surgery subsection alone. With so many potential variations in procedures, coders need as much supporting procedure documentation as they can get in order to code correctly and ensure full and timely reimbursement.
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Automated Urology Procedure Documentation Increases Efficiency, Revenue Recovery and Coding Compliance
by Keith W. Kaye MD, FRCS, FRACS, FCS(SA) and Michael Ferragamo Jr., MD, FACS
Documentation problems exist throughout medicine, but there are specific concerns in Urology. The field is changing rapidly, shifting from hospital-based service toward increasing emphasis on service provided in offices and ambulatory surgery units. Undercoding, estimated to occur in 20 to 30 percent of urology bills, always leads to loss of revenue. It is generally believed that about 30 percent of small practice billings contain coding errors and that, at large academic centers, coding errors occur in as many as 50 percent of bills.
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Pain Management White Paper
By Marvel J Hammer RN CPC CCS-P ACS-PM CHCO
Pain management procedures, which tend to be high-volume, short in duration and lower in variable cost than most surgical procedures, can be an excellent source of revenue for a medical facility. However, without complete procedure documentation that meets all the requirements for coding, billing, and regulatory compliance, this revenue stream may be compromised. In today’s compliance-conscious environment, when information is incomplete, the service provider rarely gets the benefit of the doubt, and defensive under-coding is quite common. Quite simply, incomplete information usually means lost revenue.
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