Check out this article regarding the announcement that Anthem has calmed controversy over Colorado’s health insurance by submitting its proposed plan for 2018 to the state. Health insurance giant Anthem announced late Monday that it has submitted proposed 2018 plans to the state, easing fears that it might back out of Colorado’s health insurance exchange…
RT Welter & Associates is excited to present our monthly Code Spotlight! Each month, RT Welter & Associates will spotlight a unique CPT or ICD-10 code to profile and discuss practice applications of the code, as well as pertinent guideline reminders. CPT Code 20680 — Removal of implant; deep (eg, buried wire, pin, screw, metal band, nail,…
CMS proposed a final set of codes in April’s hospital IPPS rule, including over three hundred changes. Starting Oct. 1, it will be possible to select a specific ICD-10-CM code when a patient is in remission from abuse of each of a variety of substances, including alcohol, opioids, cannabis, and nicotine. Those nine new codes…
As part of the new coding format for our newsletter, RT Welter is excited to offer you a new surgery coding series in which we want to help you! The 2nd week of every month we will highlight a complicated surgical case. This week we are highlighting a general surgery case. We want to hear…
In an email cyber notice, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is warning healthcare provider organizations that there are ongoing impacts to the U.S. healthcare sector from the WannaCry malware. The Wanna Cry or Wanna Decryptor ransomware virus swept the globe last month and virtually shut down several dozen regional health authorities…
Most long term relationships are built on mutual trust and respect. Valuable relationships are not built on mistrust, fear or intimidation. Same holds true for the relationship your practice has with payers and especially payer representatives.
Telehealth Services: As of 2017, many payers are now legally required to reimburse providers of various specialties for telehealth services. Billing and Coding reimbursement rules for telemedicine can be extremely cumbersome. Follow these compliance tips and the financial impact for your practice can be significant: Clinical documentation must support the following: the provider is rendering…
Check out this reminder from CMS about Medicare and the social security number initiative, as well as tips and links to where you can learn more about the announcement. As you know, beginning in April 2018, CMS will start mailing Medicare cards with new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) to all people with Medicare. The MBI will…
It would be better that you know that it is a good idea. Putting together a well thought out and honest Proforma can prove the business case of an idea…or disprove it.
RT Welter & Associates is excited to present our helpful career advancing tips and strategies to sharpen the skills prospective employers look for in a coder! What are they exactly? And why are they so crucial to landing your dream job? Soft skills are used synonymously with interpersonal skills and are always in high demand. These are typically skills that are more social than technical like standard job-related requirements. Soft skills include a broad range of areas – here are just a few examples: communication, executive presence, gravitas, relationship-building, decisiveness, self-motivation, leadership, team work, creativity, and resiliency. Employers desire candidates with strong soft skills as these skills are invaluable to the success of any business and are imperative to fostering a dynamic workplace.