MedAbbrev, now by innoviHealth, has been the industry standard for medical abbreviations and acronyms since 1983. Quick and easy access for hospitals, providers, coders, transcriptionists, students and researchers to over 79,000 entries. With clear and accurate standardization that is always current, medical professionals can reduce the chance of error stemming from misunderstood abbreviations.
tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert - 2014 Issue 12
EKG Denials: Monitor Your Documentation To Rejuvenate Payment For EKG Interpretations
Does your chart trace a clear picture of a separately identifiable service?
It's happening again. Payers are aggressively bundling the interpretation and report of diagnostic EKGs into the ED E/M level of service. Although the reimbursement for code 93010 (Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only) only pays $8.60 in the 2014 Medicare fee schedule, that amount adds up over the course of a year. Check out these tips to help jump start your payments for this common ED service.
First, Review the Fundamentals
For a service to be payable, it has to...
To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci ED Coding & Reimbursement Alert.
You have ED coding questions, and we deliver money-in-the-bank answers to help you defeat your claim issues and secure optimal reimbursement.
Stay in the know and avoid federal reproach with your subscription to TCI’s ED Coding and Reimbursement Alert.
Current newsletters added each month
Fully searchable archives - over 2100 articles
ALL years/issues back to 1998 organized by year and issue
Codes mentioned in articles are linked to Code Information pages
Code Information pages link back to related articles
Access to this feature is available in the following products: