Medical Billing Blog

• Are there new diagnosis or procedure codes for 2008? Do I need to buy new ICD-9) or CPT books?
  Monday, February 11, 2008   |   Practice Management
  For 2008, there are 591 new and/or updated diagnosis codes. But, unlike the 2007 ICD-9 changes and additions to pain and compartment syndromes, the 2008 updates have virtually no impact on the most professions, as there are no meaningful changes or updates to pain diagnoses.The 2008 changes…
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• Important Info for Medicare Billers Doing E-Billing
  Thursday, January 10, 2008   |   Practice Management
  The following information was submitted to us by one of our e-billing partners, Apex EDI... Apex EDI wants to share important info for collecting claims in 2008. Please make sure your clients have followed these steps and contacted their electronic claims provider to help ensure collection of their medicare claims. Please…
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• Advanced Topics in AcuBase Pro: Finding Records
  Wednesday, November 21, 2007   |   AcuBase and Trigram Stuff
  Beyond the standard ways of using AcuBase that are available through the user’s guide and buttons available in the program, there are many shortcuts in the program.  Because AcuBase Pro was created in FileMaker, most of the functionality of FileMaker is also available in AcuBase…
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• Creating a Free Virtual Medical Billing & Practice Management Community
  Saturday, November 10, 2007   |   AcuBase and Trigram Stuff, Practice Management
  What Are We Doing Here?A Diatribe on Creating a Free Virtual Medical Billing & Practice Management Community By Jason LubanFounder and Chief GeekTrigram Software  Good question--some might say it’s the Perennial Question:  "What are we doing here?"  There are a lot of ways of approaching…
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• Acupuncturists Unionize to Get Bargaining Clout with HMOs
  Saturday, November 10, 2007   |   Practice Management
  This is one approach to trying to get paid more equitably by HMOs.  The article below was from the L.A. Times Business Section, published on June 8, 2007. Check it out, and feel free to comment on our Forum… Acupuncturists Latest in Medical Field to Unionize…
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• CMS Forms and Insurance Billing Idiosyncracies
  Saturday, November 10, 2007   |   Practice Management
  In other posts and in responses to users, we have often given out the link to a PDF file thaf has very detailed information about which CMS-1500 fields should have what information in them.  (Click here to download the file now.)  Not only did we…
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• All About the New CMS Form and NPIs
  Tuesday, May 01, 2007   |   Practice Management
  If you are a practitioner who bills insurance, or plan to in the future, there are some changes you need to be aware of which take effect in a just a few months.  Remember that old, pink CMS -1500 (HCFA) form you had to use…
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