Billing & Fees | Claims | Coding & Documentation | Collections | Copayments & Deductibles | Medicaid & Medicare 

 Billing & Fees 

• Billing for preventive medicine visit and office visit 
• Billing for Noncovered Service 
• Laws Require Billing Disclosures by Physicians  
• Monitor Payer Contracts to Help Manage Revenue    
• Physicians Can Get Paid During Credentialing Process     
• TDI Fee Schedule Disclosure Rules 
• Thinking about outsourcing your billing? 
• ’Tis the Season … for Vaccines 

 Claims 

• Appealing Claims Can Have Appealing Results  
• Clean Claims 
• Clean Claims 101: Read and Follow the Instructions 
• Coverage Coordination Through Availity   
• Do's and Don'ts for Filing Clean Claims 
• HealthSmart Preferred Care Offers Online Service 
• It Takes a Team to Produce a Good Claim 
• Monitor Payer Contracts to Help Manage Revenue  
• Physicians Can Get Paid During Credentialing Process 
• THIN Response Reports Available 
• Use ZIP Codes to Zip Medicare Reimbursement to You   

 Coding & Documentation  

• Avoid Extra Steps by Submitting Documentation Requests on Time    
• Avoid These Common Coding and Documentation Errors  
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Coding Provisions in Effect  
• CMS-1500 Form: TDI Provides Guidance on Blocks 14 and 15 
• Code evaluation and management service by content, not duration 
• Codes for Glaucoma Screening Services 
• Coding a Cancelled Procedure  
• Coding for Telephone Consultations 
• Correct code for billing a routine venipuncture 
• E&M Coding Advice  
• E&M Coding Data Posted on TMA Web Site 
• E&M Coding: What Not to Do  
• Guidelines for documenting E&M services 
• Make Modifiers Work for You  
• Medicare, Two Insurers Set H1N1 Flu Vaccine Payments    
• ’Tis the Season … for Vaccines 
• Training in Coding Methods - Make it a Part of Your Practice 
• Use ZIP Codes to Zip Medicare Reimbursement to You   
• What Code should be used to bill for the state-mandated Newborn Screening Test Kits?  

 Collections 

• Collections: Key to Success in Tough Times (or Any Time)  
• TMA Hassle Factor Log Users Must Sign a Business Associate Agreement 

 Copayments & Deductibles 

• Waiving Copayments 

 Medicaid & Medicare Reimbursement 

• Audiology Services No Longer Will Be “Incident to” Under Medicare 
• Avoid Extra Steps by Submitting Documentation Requests on Time  
• Billing Medicare for Locum Tenens 
• Don’t Submit Duplicate Medicare Claims 
• Medicaid Radiology Prior Authorization Streamlined  
• Medicare Advanced Beneficiary Notices 
• Medicare Correct Coding Initiative: Use modifier -59 or -25 for coding combinations?  
• Medicare Pays for Some Inpatient Radiology and Pathology Services    
• Medicare Patients Injured on the Job 
• Medicare Therapy Cap 2013 Update  NEW 
• Medicare, Two Insurers Set H1N1 Flu Vaccine Payments   
• NPI Entity Type 1/Type 2 and Medicare Provider Numbers     
• On Medicare Prepayment Review? Here's What to Do 
• Physicians in Same Group, Same Specialty: Bill Medicare as One 
• Solo Incorporated Practitioners May Have to Re-Enroll in Medicare 
• Texas Medigap Carriers 
• ’Tis the Season … for Vaccines  
• Use Modifier AT With Tetanus Vaccine  NEW 
• Use ZIP Codes to Zip Medicare Reimbursement to You   
• What is the difference between modifier -25 and modifier -57 for Medicare? 
• Will Medicare Cover a Conference With My Patient’s Guardian?  

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