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		<title>The 4 different kinds of Medicare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2017 01:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicare is a government program you'll interact with regularly if and when you become a medical coder. Each of its 4 sub-programs cover a different set of circumstances, and we'll cover each of those circumstances here.Medicare Part AAccording to the program's website, Medicare Part A covers the following:Hospital careSkilled nursing facility careNursing home care (as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The difference between pre-operative and definitive diagnoses, and why medical coders should care</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2017 02:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like any other situation where the stakes are high, surgeons come up with a plan before going into the operating theater. This plan includes a preliminary opinion on what is likely wrong with the patient. This preliminary opinion is called the pre-operative diagnosis. It’s part of the scientific method– you need to have a hypothesis [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What is the difference between “acute” and “chronic”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 12:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short AnswerAn "acute" injury or illness means ​it was caused by an accident.A "chronic" injury or illness means it was the result of aging or damage done over time. Treatments vary depending on whether an illness is acute or chronic. &#160;Chronic treatments usually take longer to perform because, over the duration of the illness, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the difference between an “E&#038;M visit” and a “consultation”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 12:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short Answer"E&#38;M" stands for "evaluation and management". &#160;This is another term for a regular doctor's visit that was initiated by the patient."Consultation" means that one doctor referred the patient to another doctor.​ When a doctor bills a payer for one of the above types of visits, they will code for whatever diagnosis they make as [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s the difference between an illness and a disease?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 12:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short AnswerAn "illness"​ is any kind of condition where a patient feels unhealthy. &#160;It describes the subjective experience of the patient, from their point of view.A "disease" ​is any medical ailment. &#160;If a doctor would say there is something medically wrong with you, then you have been diagnosed with a disease.A patient may feel ill [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What are body systems, and why do medical coders need to know them?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 May 2017 12:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human body has eleven body systems, or groups of organs which share a common set of duties. &#160;The procedures that doctors perform, and the diagnoses they make, often pertain to one or a few of these systems (as opposed to all of them at once), and so the codes that medical coders and billers [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What are “RAC” Audits?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 13:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["RAC" stands for Recovery Audit Contractors. These contracting companies work for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and are tasked with identifying and recovering funds that were improperly paid out to healthcare providers due to improper coding.​Which providers are subject to an RAC audit?Because these companies receive a 10% commission on any funds they [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>What happens in the event of a medical coding audit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 18:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical audits are like financial audits. &#160;Sometimes we proactively have them done for preventative measures, and sometimes they're triggered by an external party like a payer or regulator. &#160;In either case, an organized set of records, backed up by detailed supporting information, increases the medical practice's odds of a successful result.What Happens During An Audit​In [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In medical coding, what is “exclusivity”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2017 14:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Exclusivity" just means that a procedure is excluded from being billed to a payer. &#160;This could be for one or multiple reasons:It isn't medically possible for a patient to have undergone a procedure that is being billed to the payer. &#160;For example, a surgeon can't credibly claim that they performed a hysterectomy on a patient [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>In medical billing and coding, what is an “incidental medical procedure”?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2017 13:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Richie]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When healthcare providers bill payers for medical services they performed, there is an expectation that only "non-incidental" procedures will be billed. &#160;One procedure is incidental to another if the 2nd procedure could not have been performed without the first one being done first.ExampleA surgeon performs an incision, and then inserts a catheter tube into a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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