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 75,000 entries. With clear and accurate standardization that is always current, medical professionals can reduce the chance of error stemming from misunderstood abbreviations.
Benchmark of the Week: Top 12 codes billed and denied by specialty in 2008
You and your peers have seen a mixed payment record on the top codes you billed to Medicare over the last three years. This chart shows the top three high-utilization, high-denial codes billed by the four specialties that bill the most codes overall to Medicare. The percentages above the bars show the denial rate for each code in 2008. Data from 2006 is not shown, but will be used as a point of comparison.
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