...Health Care Procedure Codes Purpose: To provide direction to Medical Management associates regarding FEP Non-Covered Health Care Codes Process: Locate the Non-Covered Health Care Procedure List * Log into FEP Direct * Scroll to the bottom under Support Processing & choose FAM Volume II * Scroll down under Chapters & Exhibits * Click on Exhibit 2-Non-Covered Health Care Procedure Codes OR * http://bluelink.wellpoint.com/bluelink/Top25Documents.aspx * Click on the Non-Covered Health Care Procedure Codes link Using the Non-Covered Health Care Procedure List * At the top of the list click on “Summary of Procedure Codes” * This will bring up a list of non-covered codes in specific groupings per CPT code. From this list you can choose the grouping your code would be in. FOR EXAMPLE: You are given CPT code 15839. This code falls between codes 15819-17380…Surgery: Integumentary System. Click on the category name and look through the list for your specific code. 15839 - Excision, excessive skin; other area is listed here as a Non Covered Health Care Procedure Code. UMRs WMDS * If all of the codes are found on the non-covered benefit list: * Load the case with the procedure codes * Indicate the non-covered benefit codes in the case note * Send to RN for review * If at least one code is found on the non-covered benefit list: * Load the case with the procedure codes * Indicate the non-covered benefit codes in the case...
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...case the patient has Humana. On the care the office manager needs to verify if a referral or pre-authorization needs to be obtained and then contact the respective Primary care physician and get his documentation. Insurance verification data and a copy of the insurance card is sent to the billing office. The billing office scans the information and saves the documents. The Scanning department retrieve the information and it sent to the appropriate departments. Pre-coders then enter the key-in codes for insurance companies, doctors and modifiers. Pre-coders also add insurance companies, referring doctors, modifiers, diagnosis codes and procedure codes. The coding team assigns the Numerical codes for current procedural terminology and the diagnosis code based on the description given by the provider. The charge team has competent individuals who would first enter the patient personal information form the information given. Also they check for the relationship of the diagnosis code and the current procedural terminology. They create a charge, according to the billing rules pertaining to the specific carriers and locations. All charges are accomplished within an agreed turnaround time, about 24 hours. The daily charge entry then needs to be audited to double check the accuracy. Claims are filed and information sent to the transmission department. This department prepares a list of claims that go out on paper and through the electronic media. Once claims are transmitted, confirmation...
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...Evaluation Compliance Strategies Medical Billing and coding compliance is very important to the billing world. Billing management starts at the first patient contact and ends only when the account has been paid in full. . In between, there are a series of important steps, each of which is critical for accurate billing and proper reimbursement. In this essay we are going to discuss the importance of the linkage code, implications of incorrect medical coding, and how physicians and payers fee are related to the billing compliance. We are also going to discuss what steps we can take to meet the compliance standards. When claims are filed correctly they will show the connection between the service being billed and the diagnosis code. The linkage code helps determine which procedure goes with which diagnosis code. If the linkage codes are not correct this will cause the claim to be denied. Linkage codes help the payer to determine the medical necessity for the service provided. Payers will determine the coverage by medical necessity. Services that are considered to be of nonmedical necessity are not covered under an insurance policy. It is important that the billing specialist be aware that different payers will have their own set of medical necessity edits. The implications of incorrect medical coding can cause issues for both the medical provider and the patient. Coding incorrectly can cause denial of claims. Providers would lose their patients trust, causing them to...
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...document and attests to the fact that services were performed and may be billed for (Maines). Most encounter forms use "Progress" codes that are non-billable until the procedure is completed (i.e. root canals and prosthetics). Commonly these are CDT codes with "P" appended, while completed procedures have "C" appended, or have no prefix/ suffix. Depending on coverage, some procedures may need to be 'prior approved' by the third party carrier to be paid after completion. Terms for this are usually spelled out in the third party contracts. After the dentist formulates a treatment plan, it is submitted for Prior Approval, and approved services/ amounts are assigned some kind of code for billing upon completion (often called a PA number. Superbills & encounter forms help you save time and capture all charges from your patient visits. You can configure a custom Superbill for each provider in your practice, print Superbills with prepopulated patient information from the appointment scheduler, and use those Superbills to document the charges for your patient visits. By using forms customized to your unique needs, you can save time while capturing all charges. Superbills & Encounter Forms Superbills, also known as "Encounter Forms", "Charge Slips", or "Fee Tickets", are pre-printed forms that are used to document the charges, via procedure codes, associated with a patient visit along with...
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...more than 24 hours. Inpatient Medical Coders use the coding systems ICD-9-CM, ICD-10 as well as DRG (Diagnoses Related Groups). Inpatient Medical Coding requires greater knowledge and experience because the groupings and sequencing of codes for specific diagnoses and procedures in a hospital are significantly greater. Daily tasks usually include: • Review patient histories, operations, chart reviews, consultation and discharge summaries to support codes selected for billing. • Utilize ICD-9-CM and/or ICD-10 to select the diagnosis-related group (DRG) assignments for each case. • Identify mistakes in reports. • Enter coding information into electronic billing system. Many Inpatient Medical Coders work for hospitals, although insurance companies and long-term health-care facilities may also employ inpatient coders. They typically must have at least 2 years of experience to be hired and may work at the facility or off-site in their homes. Hours vary based on the employer. Accuracy is critical in this position, as much of a hospital’s revenue depends on the correct coding of the diagnoses, procedures, and treatments administered. Coders often interact with physicians, nurses and other medical professionals in order to select the proper codes. Critical thinking and communication skills, great attention to detail and the ability to manage pressure without error are essential. Training: • High school diploma or certificate beyond high school and increasingly employers are specifying...
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...surgical codes, based on clinical documentation from a healthcare provider, which is used for review and validation. With the assistance of these new automation tools, coding or HIM professionals can easily translate clinical data input into useful clinical data output. Increased amounts of clinical coding is done by machines, which saves time and human participation for more complex coding cases and data analysis tasks. Factors, such as advances in natural language processing, EHR adoption, compliance issues and mandates for labor – intensive administrative reporting processes reduction, influenced the demand of CAC. Traditionally, clinical documentation (whether paper or electronic) is analyzed by a coder, translated into the appropriate ICD – 9 CM or CPT/HCPCS codes with the help of coding books or encoders and entered into a database. These new coding automation tools assists HIM professionals in translating data by automated code assignment instead of manual review and translation alone. As early as the 1950s, the technology of CAC – enabled tools, particularly Natural Language Processing (NLP), started with formal language theory. Throughout this time, technological progress was slow but technology has rapidly progressed and is constantly advancing at an exponential rate since the 1990s. Coding is a difficult task because it has a four- dimensional complexity. First, coding rules’ volume and intricacy makes selecting the right diagnosis/ procedure code and code modifiers...
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...CHAPTER TWO : WORK PROCESS AND PROCEDURES (DEATH INQUIRY) 2.1 INTRODUCTION Malaysia are developing country which achieve many great achievement. However, it does not exceptional from getting criminal cases which being committed by irresponsible individual. It has become a social responsibility of a government to ensure that the citizen are able to do their daily activity without feel fear in becoming a victim of criminal cases that occur daily. To make sure the safety of the citizens, a criminal justice system which is effective and efficient must be establish to ensure the offenders are arrested, prosecute and punished accordingly. Criminal Procedure Code or Act 593 is a provision of law which has become a general guideline which...
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...The following paper will be discussing the 4 main steps to ensure that the ICD codes are accurate. This paper will also be discussing the four steps that are necessary to establish the proper ICD-9-CM code. There are many ways that this paper will explain what is right to do and gives you a good source through a book that you can just gather all your information from. Step-by Step Medical Code Book by Buck is such an incredible book to get your sources from. ICD-9-CM code means International Classification of Disease, 9th edition. This is a standardized classification of disease, injuries and causes of death, by etiology and anatomic localization and anatomic localization and codified into a 6 digit number. When given any of these symptom assigned number’s this allows many clinicians and many involved people that have the same common language with in the medical field. The ICD-9-CM has been used in this country since 1973 for morbidity applications. This will help continue the hospital or anyone dealing with medical to be organized and just improve more and more. There are 8 steps to follow to have an accurate coding system. We are going to discuss the top 4 that are important. First one is to identify the main term in the diagnostic statements meaning you would to make sure that you have the correct code. Always do a double check when finding the correct code. The second step to an accurate code is you would need to locate the main term in the Alphabetic index. The Index...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Chapter-1: Introduction……………………………………………….………2 2.1. Jurisdiction: meaning; 2.2. Jurisdiction and Consent. 2. Chapter-2: Kinds of Jurisdiction………………………...…………...........…..5 3.3. Territorial or local Jurisdiction; 3.4. Pecuniary Jurisdiction; 3.5. Subject Matter Jurisdiction; 3.6. Original and appellate Jurisdiction. 3. Chapter-3: Lack of Jurisdiction and Irregular jurisdiction……………..…10 4. Chapter-4: Jurisdiction under S0ection -9 of CPC………….…........................23 5.7. Conditions; 5.8. Who may decide; 5.9. Presumption as to Jurisdiction; 5.10. Burden of Proof; 5.11. Exclusion of Jurisdiction; 5.12. Exclusion of Jurisdiction of civil court: Principles; 5.13. General Principles. 5. Chapter-5: Effects on a decree passed by the court without any jurisdiction…………………………………………………………………….....34 6.14. Essentials of decree. 6.15. Kinds of decree. 6.16. Place suing. 6.17. The effect on a decree passed by a court having no: 5.4.1. Territorial jurisdiction; 5.4.2. Pecuniary jurisdiction; 5.4.3. Subject matter jurisdiction. 6. Bibliograpgy……………………………………………………………………..35 CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION The fundamental principle of law that wherever there is a right, there is a remedy (ubi jus ibi remedium) has been adopted by the Indian legal system also. In fact right and remedy are but the two sides of the same...
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...mechanism in the country. Therefore, the introduction of section 891 and Rules 1A, 1B and 1C in Order 10, which provides for settlement of disputes through ADR mechanism, in the CPC2. Section 89- Is it the best answer? A simple reading of the section suggests that the Court is not bound to decide each case itself, but can refer the dispute to Arbitration, Conciliation, Mediation, Lok Adalats or Judicial settlement mechanism, the failure of which would revert the case back to the Court for normal adjudication proceedings. This could reduce the burden of the Court. But there have been several doubts, even cases challenging the validity and the completeness of S.89, saying that it does not provide much operational value in real time. 1 Civil Procedure Code, Section 89: Settlement of disputes outside the court. - (1) Where it appears to the Court that there exist elements of a settlement which may be acceptable to the parties, the Court shall formulate the terms of settlement and give them to the parties for their observations and after receiving the observations of the parties, the Court may reformulate the terms of a possible settlement and refer the same for - (a) arbitration; (b) conciliation; (c) judicial settlement including settlement through Lok Adalat; or (d) mediation. (2) where a dispute has been...
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...Part 3: Array Structure Proposal Wayne Murray Algorithms and Logic for Computer Programming (PRG 211) November 14, 2011 Professor Sprouse Array Structure Proposal In my proposal from week two I would want to find the total number of units per patient for each procedure code billed by the doctor. A parallel array consisting of a one-dimensional and a two-dimensional array in this case would be a good way to solve this problem in a simplified code format. An array would also allow all the data the user wants to input to be stored in the program for multiple queries to be run without having to re-input the data. So this module of the program will allow the user to input all the different procedure codes billed the provider and return a units-per-patient statistic for the searched procedure code. Assuming the data that the user will input is all for the same provider, the following variables will need to be declared: the procedure code, the number of patients, and the number of units billed. Two arrays will be declared as well, one for the procedure code and one for the number of patients and units. The procedure code variable and array must be setup with a string data type since there are some procedure codes that have alpha characters. The number of patients and the number of units variables, as well as their corresponding array will be setup as integer data types. Since both of those variables are of the same data type they can be combined into one two dimensional array...
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...A coder should never code directly from the Indexes. After locating a code in the index, go to that code in the Tabular List to find important instructions and to verify the code selected. The importance of consistent, complete documentation in the medical record cannot be overemphasized because without such documentation, accurate coding cannot be achieved. A joint effort between the health care provider and the coder is essential to achieving complete and accurate documentation, code assignment, and reporting of diagnoses and procedures consistent. Complete documentation in the patient record is crucial because without such documentation, accurate codes cannot be assigned. In addition, the entire patient record must be reviewed to determine...
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...Modifiers Traci Cruz December 15, 2011 HCR 220- Luci Shipley Bilateral procedure code -50 Bilateral services are procedures that are performed on both sides of the human body during an operative session or on the same day. The modifier 50 would not be applicable for procedures that are bilateral by definition or their descriptions that include the terminology as “bilateral” or “unilateral”. Multiple procedures code -51 When multiple procedures, other than E/M service are performed at the same time by the same provider, the primary procedures or services are reported as listed. Any additional procedures or services may be identified by an appending modifier of 51 to any additional procedure or service codes. Prolonged evaluation and management code -21 When a face-to-face or floor unit services are provided and is prolonged or otherwise greater than and is usually required for the highest level of evaluation. Unusual anesthesia code -23 This would indicate that the anesthesia was unusual, and rather using anesthesia during a particular procedure was unusual. This means that occasionally a procedure which is unusually would requires no anesthesia or local anesthesia, because of the unusual circumstances that are being performed under general anesthesia. Under this circumstance this may be reported by adding the modifier 23 to the procedure code of any basic service. Mandated services code -32 This code is used in healthcare to describe diseases, injuries, symptoms, and conditions...
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...a task into routines or procedures and process, one by one according to their relevance in task completion. Thus procedural or algorithmic programming is based upon concept of procedure call. Here procedures or subroutines are series of computational steps. It enables the programmers to specify simple interface, very suitable for reusability, and procedures are self-contained. Because of reusability, different people can use the code written by someone. This also paves way to creation of programming libraries. Procedural programming offers the following advantages: 1. Ease of implementation 2. Easier to keep track of program flow. 3. Modularized 4. Need less memory Disadvantage of procedural programming can be summed up as: 1. Data is exposed to whole system. 2. Real world object mapping is difficult. 3. New user data type creation is very difficult. Reusability Procedural programming does achieve reusability of code within the same program as well as other programs. This is achieved by creating reusable chunk of code called procedures. Procedures can be declared and defined locally or globally inside a program. It enables the programmer to call the specific procedure at any point of the program. But here is a point to notice that local declaration permits reuse only within the local scope while a global declaration facilitates reuse of the code in any part of the program. If the procedures are placed inside a global...
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