The Certified Professional Coder (CPC) Certification is offered by the American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC), the subject of an earlier post. Although the CPC Certification is not required by law, employers can state a preference or requirement that applicants …
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 …
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has one of the largest influences of any single agency on the medical billing and coding profession. CMS has an enormous affect on determining the rate at which medical services are provided, …
With recent news stories about NSA programs breaking sophisticated encryption codes and state-sponsored cyber terrorism, questions about the security of digital information cannot be far from the minds of any medical billing and coding professional. Especially since the 2009 Health …
According to numbers from Bureau of Labor Statistics for Medical Records and Health Information Technicians where all these figures are provided, nationwide there are 182,370 employees working in this field, earning an average annual salary of $36,770. That means that …