Medicare Wellness Services: Billing for Medicare wellness services can be a huge pain point for any primary care practice. However, the pain is well worth it when you consider that providing these services can result in tens of thousands of additional reimbursement dollars for your practice. These services can reimburse up to $174 per visit.…
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! Conversation Skills – The art of smooth conversation centers on the communicator’s ability to effectively convey ideas and information. Conversation skills take practice, patience, and development over time and…
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. ICD-10 Code I16 – Hypertensive Crisis I16.0 — Hypertensive Urgency, which should be reported when a…
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…
Sharing helpful career advancing tips and strategies to sharpen the skills prospective employers look for in a coder! Emotional Intelligence (EI) – Many of us are familiar with IQ tests, which measure our intellectual abilities and intelligence. Many of us also believe that having a high IQ makes you the best candidate for any job. However, employers are…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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.