8 Tips from Cardiology Billing Experts on Increasing Your Billing Efficiency

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8 Tips from Cardiology Billing Experts on
Increasing Your Billing Efficiency
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Introduction

• Cardiology billing is said to be the grim affair
  unlike handling other specialty.
• Cardiology billing includes various procedures,
  which makes the billing service intricate as it
  requires the coders to check out the various
  procedures handled and coding the billable
  services depending upon the place of service. 
• Cardiology billing and coding requires the most
  experienced and skilled staff who are current
  with the recent updates of cardiology billing
  guidelines, code specific rules and compliance
  standards.
• Even the slightest mar might result in claim
  denials and loss of revenue. Let us  have a look
  on the tips from Cardiology billing experts on
  increasing your billing efficiency.

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Stay Current with the Billing and Coding Changes

• The foremost step towards an efficient
  Cardiology billing is to ensure your team is
  current with the ongoing changes in the
  cardiology billing and coding rules and
  guidelines.
• Due to its complex nature, the rules and
  guidelines for cardiology related procedures and
  medical billing guidelines often goes through
  various updates and changes.
• It is essential that your team handling
  cardiology billing has  excellent knowledge and
  skill to keep themselves contemporary.

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Complete and Accurate documentation

• Cardiology billing can be tricky, any gap in
  documentation may result in missing billable
  codes, which will indirectly slow down your
  practice revenue.
• Accurate and complete documentation of the exact
  procedure is essential to ensure quality billing
  and coding services and to reduce claim denials.
• Processing claims with incomplete and inaccurate
  documentation can be time-consuming and lead to
  delay in each scope of services.

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Code diagnosis Instead of Symptoms

• In cardiology billing, it is vital to analyze
  the medical reports and code the confirmed
  diagnosis instead of reporting symptoms unless
  there are client specific instructions to code
  the symptoms.
• Similarly coding additional symptoms associated
  with the disease is to be avoided unless noted
  otherwise.

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Usage of Combo Codes when appropriate

•  Cardiology coders need to be aware and follow
  various coding instructions such as Code also,
  Use additional codes, Code first, etc.
• It is essential to use the combo codes when
  appropriate to avoid claims denials, delays and
  rejection.
• Missing combo codes indirectly means missing on
  the your due payment.

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Coding Comorbidities

•  Comorbidities are relevant conditions documented
  by the provider.
• Coding comorbidities will entitle the physician
  for higher reimbursement.
• Coding comorbidities does not only gets you
  higher reimbursement it also let  the payer be
  informed about the additional cost.

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Regular Audit of your Medical billing and coding

• Because of the intricate nature of cardiology
  billing, errors in coding and billing might seem
  inevitable.
• Planning regular audits can help control the
  error percentage, at the same time it also helps
  to analyze the common cause for errors and ensure
  quality measures are taken to curb repeated
  errors.
• Audit also enables you to understand your team
  and provide them additional or retraining as and
  when required to keep them abreast.

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Updated Billing System and software

• Leveraging on the right billing system that
  suits your requirement is quintessential to keep
  up your billing pace enhanced in todays
  competitive and fast moving business trend.
• Investing and adopting to a suitable EMR and PMS
  will help increase your productivity, quality and
  Turnaround Time (TAT).

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Offshore Outsourcing

• It is viable to outsource your cardiology
  billing to an offshore based medical billing
  partner to avail  quality billing and coding
  services.
• An offshore based Medical billing company works
  to reduce your turnaround time, over-head cost on
  hiring, staffing etc.
• An offshore based cardiology billing team is
  regularly trained to increase your productivity
  and quality service.

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About e-care India

• e-care India is one of the pioneering
  offshore medical billing companies based in
  India that promises to avoid the risks involved
  with missed Charges.
• With 20 years of experience in the industry,
  e-cares 3 delivery centers have been providing
  end-to-end medical claims processing services
  seamlessly to its clients.
• To know more about e-care and its services, log
  on to www.ecareindia.com

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