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Each year when I receive my new coding books the first thing I do is transfer all my notes from one book to the other.

Have you ever wanted to know what a physician means when they document using certain words, phrases, orders, and clinical plans?

For fun, let’s take a short quiz. Would you say that the following scenarios would be coded as a new or established patient?

The Vermont hospital, Brattleboro Memorial, recently paid $1.6 million to the U.S. and State of Vermont to resolve allegations of false claims.

There’s nothing more frustrating to a coder than spending a good part of their work day correcting common provider coding errors.

1. Former Orange County lab Owner Sentenced to 8 Years for Healthcare Fraud –

Preventive services and screenings are important, especially for our little ones.

For those of you unfamiliar with coding and billing, modifier -59 is a two-digit numeric code modifier that can be appended to a CPT or HCPCS procedure code, for example, and will frequently bypass many payor edits.