Family Practice Medical Billing Services

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• Family Practice Medical Billing Services

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Family Practice Medical Billing Services
Every family practice faces billing and coding
challenges. Rapidly evolving technologies and
increasingly complex treatment protocols
including primary care, general practice, disease
prevention and E M services make family
medicine coding, billing and reimbursement
extremely challenging for the general
practitioner. Family medicine coding is complex
and requires experienced, trained and certified
coders to accurately code the preventive
procedures and common chronic illnesses such as
hypertension, angina, diabetes, asthma, COPD
(Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease),
depression, anxiety, back pain, arthritis,
thyroid dysfunction, family planning,
vaccinations etc. Medisys Data Solutions brings
over 15 years of family medicine coding and
billing experience to your practice. Your family
medicine practice needs the skills and experience
to handle complex preventive procedures. We at
Medisys Data Solutions are recognized in family
practice coding and billing. Below Are A Few
Steps From Family Practice Billing
Professionals Reduce human error Double checking
the codes is very important as the family
medicine codes are complex. Frequently used codes
can be memorized and used by coders to avoid
human error.
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Family Practice Medical Billing Services
Monitoring updates on family practice coding
Keeping abreast with the coding updates by
maintaining ICD 10 CM, PCS, HCPCS, CPT code books
is imperative. CMS website publishes frequent
updates to the coding rules and guidelines. The
AAFP (American Academy of Family Physicians)
publishes frequent newsletters. Frequent
reference to CMS websites and subscriptions to
articles will keep the providers updated on
family practice coding. Accurate Documentation
Incorrect or inaccurate documentation delays the
reimbursement cycle of claims. Documentation gaps
in preventive procedures may lead to revenue
losses for healthcare providers. Quality checks
and audits Regular quality checks and frequent
audits of coding is a must to avoid repetition of
errors. There needs to be open communication
between physicians, coders, billers. General
practitioners need to be educated by coders and
billers frequently used ICD and CPT codes by the
practice and denials/rejections.