Director of ECP Services, RevolutionEHR If you’re anything like me, you’re wondering three things right now: 1) Who is BTS and why are they so popular, 2) Why do we park on a driveway and drive on a parkway, and 3) What changes might we see with ICD-10 this year? Wait…you’re not wondering any of those things? Congratulations! I’d worry …

Director of ECP Services, Rev360 For many, the end of Meaningful Use (MU) and the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) represented a time to breathe a sigh of relief. “Finally,” many proclaimed, “I can stop worrying about these silly requirements and get back to focusing on my patients”. After all, once incentive or bonus payments for these programs were exhausted …

Director of ECP Services, Rev360 Ask people here in the northeast part of the country to name their favorite season of the year and you’re likely to hear many pick fall. Something about the leaves changing, the World Series, and planning for the upcoming ski and hockey seasons get people really excited. A well-kept secret, though, is that what people …

InSight Eye Care, Oshkosh, WI A medical record is intended to be an accurate and complete legal document describing a single patient’s medical history, exam findings, and treatment plan by a provider. We, as the providers, need to understand that this document is more than just a means for us to track what we did and a way to get …

InSight Eye Care, Oshkosh, WI I attended a meeting in Fort Worth, Texas a couple weeks ago. During a conversation with some colleagues, I was asked, “How did you become a coding expert?” My first thought was, “Expert?! That sounds a little braggadocious, but I suppose I am.” And then my response was the same one that Dr. Charles Brownlow …

InSight Eye Care, Oshkosh, WI A little over a year ago, a wave of letters from United Health Care (UHC) started showing up in doctors’ mail boxes across the country. And to no one’s surprise, another wave appears to have just been sent out. This letter’s intent is to show doctors their distribution of comprehensive (920×4) and intermediate (920×2) ophthalmological …

InSight Eye Care, Oshkosh, WI With a new year, we typically find ourselves making commitments to “do better” in life, exercise more, spend more time with our family, etc. Could we maybe add proper coding of our medical records to the list? Now I know that may sound like an extremely boring and a pretty mind numbing thing to do, …

InSight Eye Care, Osh Kosh, WI As optometry became more advanced and we took on the care of more and more ocular disease, our lists of diagnoses continued to grow…and GROW! As good historians, we seem to feel obligated to list every diagnosis the patient has in the assessment & plan, but then we also link them to our billed …