General Surgery Medical Billing Services

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• General Surgery Medical Billing Services

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General Surgery Medical Billing Services

• Every General Surgery practice faces challenges
  in coding and billing. Professional coding and
  billing expertise is necessary to code and bill
  general surgery claims. General surgery coding
  and billing is complex and requires experienced,
  trained and certified coders to accurately code
  the procedures such as ambulatory phlebectomy,
  colon cancer, hamorroids, cholecystetomy, colon
  resection, lung surgery, thyroid surgery,
  varicose veins, robotic assisted surgery, single
  incision laparoscopic surgery etc.
• Medisys Data Solutions brings years of general
  surgery coding and billing experience to your
  practice. Your general surgery practice needs the
  skills and experience to handle complex surgical
  procedures. We at Medisys Data Solutions are
  recognized in general surgery coding and billing.
• Below Are A Few Steps From General Surgery
  Billing Professionals
• Avoid duplicate billing Healthcare providers
  perform multiple procedures during a surgery. In
  addition to this they also cancel scheduled
  procedures during surgery. Coders and billers
  need to be very careful while charging each and
  every procedure to avoid coding and billing
  duplicate claims to avoid refunds to insurance
  companies

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General Surgery Medical Billing Services

• Monitoring updates on general surgery coding
  Keeping abreast with the coding updates by
  maintaining ICD 10 CM, PCS, HCPCS, CPT code books
  is imperative. CMS website publishes frequent
  updates to the coding rules and guidelines. The
  ASGS (American Society of General Surgeons) and
  ASA (American Surgical Association) publishes
  frequent newsletters and journals. Frequent
  reference to CMS websites and subscriptions to
  articles will keep the providers updated on
  general surgery coding and billing
• Quality checks and audits Regular quality checks
  and frequent audits of coding is a must to avoid
  repetition of errors. There needs to be open
  communication between physicians, coders,
  billers. General Surgeons need to be educated by
  coders and billers frequently used ICD and CPT
  codes by the practice and denials/rejections
• Upcoding Coders and billers entries in the
  practice management software should match with
  the actual diagnosis and procedure codes done by
  the general surgeon. The coders have to be
  careful while coding expensive procedures which
  are unnecessarily billed than what was actually
  performed by the general surgeon