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Continue Education units(CEUs) are very important for retaining the certification from AAPC and AHIMA. Every year medical coders are in need of CEUs. If CEUs are not submitted on time, the coder may lose his or her certification from AAPC or AHIMA. Hence, CEUs are very important for all certified medical coders. Today, again I … Read more
Since the time professionals have taken medical coding as a career, they have the curiosity about how to be called a Certified Professional coder. Having a Certification with a nice experience in medical coding will surely give you a good growth in your career. Many medical coders first start learning about medical codes and then … Read more
You have more opportunity to earn CEUs to retain your Professional Medical Coding Certificate from AAPC and AHIMA. Supercoder is giving CEUs for attending webinars in June and July month. We have already seen few more website where we can earn CEUs for AAPC and AHIMA. Medical coders are always in search of CEUs, hence … Read more
Evaluation and Management 99217 Observation care discharge day management (This code is to be utilized to report all services provided to a patient on discharge from outpatient hospital “observation status” if the discharge is on other than the initial date of “observation status.” To report services to a patient designated … Read more
ICD 10 codes has increased lot of complication for medical coders. Since, ICD 10 is very different from ICD 9, the use of these codes has created lot of problem. Still there are lot of ICD 10 coding errors done by medical coders. Most of the errors are happening in coding Z codes, due to … Read more
Medicare payment is made for facility services and covered ancillary services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries by a participating ASC in connection with covered surgical procedures. Examples of facility services for which payment is packaged into the ASC payment for a covered surgical procedure include: Nursing, technician, and related services; Use of the facility where the surgical procedures are … Read more
CEUs or Continue Education Units are important for retaining our medical coding certification. AAPC and AHIMA are the best two organization which conducts coding certification exams. Once you get certification from these organization, you will have good growth in medical coding career. I have already share few blog post on earning or getting CEUs for … Read more
In 2018, we will be having a total of 314 CPT code changes. Also, we will be having two new modifiers as well in 2018. Today, we will checkout some of the new CPT codes added in 2018 in procedure codebook. The new CPT 2018 manual contains a total of 172 new codes and 60 … Read more
Professionals who want to take Medical Coding as a career always want to be called as Certified Professional Medical Coder. However, lots of us do not know the exact path of becoming a certified coder. During my initial days, I was unaware of any certification exams in the field of medical coding. Nevertheless, with the … Read more
Basics about Medical coding Professionals from healthcare background are taking medical coding as a career. To be an expert in medical coding, coders need to be certified from AAPC or AHIMA. Both AAPC and AHIMA certification have high value and one can easily get a nice job after being certified. Now, here we will just … Read more