The Certified Medical Reimbursement Specialist (CMRS) Certification is one of several nationally prominent credentials recognized in the medical billing and coding profession, offered through the American Medical Billing Association (AMBA), an organization featured in a previous post. The CMRS, like …
Medical billing and coding professionals ensure health care providers get paid or reimbursed for their services. Billing and coding are two sides of the same coin, both essential for smooth business operations. Medical billing professionals act as the go-between for …
Today’s medical billing and coding professionals are under constant pressure and deadlines to work ever faster while improving efficiency. Accuracy and speed are nearly an oxymoron, yet coding professionals can frequently find these in the same sentence of their job …
Over the past decade medical costs have been steadily rising faster than inflation. There are several explanations for this, and logically one could surmise that one of them is upcoding, the practice of a health care provider or medical coder …
Many medical billing and coding professionals have had the unfortunate experience of having their submissions denied. Contrary to being ashamed, professionals can use these as opportunities to learn from their mistakes, and most employers will forgive the inevitable return provided …
Question: What can auditors do to liven up a party? Answer: Not show up. While there are plenty of mediocre auditor jokes, it is even less amusing to become the subject of a payer audit. Unfortunately though, for medical billing …