Quick Intro: For those providing care to patients, the quality of care is most important to the hospital or clinic. For the business side of the practice though, the
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A radiology department sees the order come through: MRI, right shoulder, no contrast, rule out rotator cuff tear. The technologist knows exactly what to do. The coder still has
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CPT code 93306 is the code cardiology practices bill more than almost any other diagnostic imaging code they own. It reports a complete transthoracic echocardiogram, the standard heart ultrasound
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An esophagogastroduodenoscopy sounds like a mouthful because it is one: the scope travels from the esophagus through the stomach and into the duodenum in a single pass. For medical
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New patient evaluation and management (E/M) visits are a major source of revenue for healthcare practices, yet many clinicians unintentionally lose reimbursement due to incorrect coding. Among these codes,
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Gallbladder removal is one of the highest-volume general surgery procedures billed in the United States, and most of it now runs through a laparoscope. Roughly 1.2 million cholecystectomies are
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