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Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management and Clinical Documentation Integrity To Avoid Coding Disasters

Relias

You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. Above all, it’s vital to educate your staff on accurate medical coding.

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Optimizing Revenue Cycle Management and Clinical Documentation Integrity To Avoid Coding Disasters

Relias

You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. Above all, it’s vital to educate your staff on accurate medical coding.

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How to Become an Oncology Medical Assistant

Prism Career Institute

Approach Your Medical Assistant Program with an Oncology Focus When medical assistant program students express an interest in oncology, Prism Career Institute staff encourage them to approach their studies with that focus.

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Healthcare Workers are In-Demand

Milwaukee Career College

You will also learn how to run a front office administration by learning medical administrative processes, general management, customer satisfaction, and business communication skills. If you would like to learn more, talk to a Milwaukee Career College admissions advisor today. You can also train to become a surgical technician.

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Top 5 Questions about being a Medical Assistant

Milwaukee Career College

You will receive comprehensive training to perform certain clinical tasks, front office administrative duties and wide-ranging medical coding and medical billing duties. The program includes an unpaid externship experience at a local medical office or healthcare facility. Are you ready to become a medical assistant?

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Get ready for CPT codes changes in 2024 

Health Prime

These revisions include: Removal of time ranges from office or other outpatient visit codes (99202-99205, 99212-99215) and the alignment of the format with other E/M codes A definition to determine the “substantive portion” of a split/shared E/M visit in which a physician and a non-physician practitioner work jointly to furnish all the work related (..)

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How to Become an EKG Technician: Salary & Career Guide

CareerStep

Read more: What is Present on Admission (POA) in Medical Coding? Daisy Manteris, Allied Health instructor and combat medic, shares that one of the challenges for EKG technicians is learning to identify various heart rhythms. Is becoming an EKG technician hard?