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If your job is to deliver accurate medical coding data fast, you know the consequences to your revenue if you don’t choose a reliable source for data files. Don’t take chances! With TCI SuperCoder’s Data Files, you get up-to-date data, customizable to your specific needs. Our quality-focused teams make sure the files are easy to integrate into your existing systems, which reduces downtime and helps prevent claim submission delays.

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A lot of the talk around TCI SuperCoder lately has been focused on our recently improved 2018 Data Files and the major financial consequences that can result from an organization’s choice of data files.

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It’s that time of year again — time for your patients to start thinking about their healthcare needs and what they’re looking for in their Medicare health and drug plans. Medicare Open Enrollment began on Oct. 15 and will remain open until Dec.

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Most ob-gyn coders know the mantra—specificity, specificity, specificity. If you want prompt and ethical reimbursement in 2018, though, specificity just got real. Are you up to date on the changes now in effect?

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The critical importance of steady healthcare is essential to combat disasters like Hurricanes’ Harvey, Irma, and Maria. Federal efforts aim to assist providers and their staffs through crises like these, but in the aftermath as practices try to rebuild, the process of leafing through complicated waivers, claims, and resources can be daunting.

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Hope you can forgive that bit of Halloween headline fun before we get down to serious coding business! Maybe “‘Witch’ Team Member” would have been more to your liking than “Hoo.” Either way, I bet you are ready for more CPT® 2018 news now. Here’s what you need to know about the photodynamic therapy update swooping our way Jan. 1.

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What are your plans for your 2018 ICD-10 charts? Here are some helpful hints on how to make the most of those handy lists of top-used diagnosis codes.

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Chest X-rays are common tests (understatement!), and providers frequently order and perform abdomen X-rays, too. If you’re one of the many medical coders who needs to know how to report those X-rays, there are seven new codes in CPT® 2018 that you won’t want to miss. Here’s the scoop. Source Link

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Effective Use of NCD, LCD, and NCCI Edits for Clean Claims

Do you know how to use the NCD, LCD, and NCCI edits for the most accurate claim submission? Getting the most out of these edits can help from getting those denied claims in the first submission.

We will review:

   Definition of NCCI (CCI), NCD and LCD and their importance    How NCCI (CCI) edits impact CPT coding    ICD 10-CM updates that will affect NCD and LCD    Helpful tips to send out clean claims    Learn tools and resources that will help with the up-to-date coding changes

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CPT® 2018 news is taking on momentum. Checking out the MPFS 2018 proposed rule offered us a handy preview of new codes coming in CPT® 2018 priced under MPFS. Let’s turn our attention now to what path/lab coders can expect. We’ll focus here on changes where you’ll have more than one new option to choose from. For more complete analysis, check out Pathology/Lab Coding Alert (if this is your specialty, you’ll be glad you did!). Note: Adjustments may occur to these codes before the code set implementation date of Jan. 1, 2018. To know more visit here

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Immediately see an ICD-10-CM code's applicable 7th characters. You can be confident you're reporting the complete code, capturing required information such as episode of care: initial, subsequent, or sequelae.

Read Descriptor here

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Immediately see an ICD-10-CM code's applicable 7th characters. You can be confident you're reporting the complete code, capturing required information such as episode of care: initial, subsequent, or sequelae.

Find ICD-10 Codes-r9431 Descriptor

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When the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule comes out, it includes discussions of how to value new codes, and it’s fun to look for insights into the procedure codes that will be coming our way. Let’s take a quick tour of what’s expected for CPT® 2018 based on what’s in the pages of the MPFS proposed rule.

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Our initial overview of ICD-10-CM 2018 looked at specialties with a large number of changes. But there are plenty of important changes coming Oct. 1, 2017, that didn’t fit into that quick analysis. Case in point: Urology has some interesting new codes that will be important for anyone who reports services related to congenital undescended testicles.