When riddled with mistakes, coding can cost an ASC revenue and time. Caryl Serbin, president and founder of Serbin Medical Billing in Fort Myers, Fla., offers insight into the most common coding ...

As discussed in Part I of this article, coding for procedures in all specialties is often a complex process. In Part I we discussed common areas that are prone to erroneous coding in orthopedics, ...

Elizabeth Lamkin, CEO of Pace Healthcare Consulting in Hilton Head, S.C., identifies three common coding problems that recovery audit contractors often identify. CPT ...

Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...

Properly coding this would raise a resident’s ADL Index, and in a hypothetical example provided by Newell, this change resulted in an additional payment of $64 each day. “Undercoding can cost you $90 ...