Prepayments are always a financial benefit if permitted in your state, and the clinic follows the rules. But how does this work with Medicare? Believe it or not, Medicare has an opinion.
Here’s A Tip For You!
We go to the restaurant and tip the waiter/waitress. We go to the spa and tip the hair dresser. We have food delivered to our house and we tip the driver. But can the massage therapist in your office accept a tip? Let’s see what Kathy has to say on the subject.
Know it in Your Bones
Watch this quick training where Kathy breaks the definition down into management parts so providers can digest the most important aspect of when it’s ok to expect payment from a third-party payer and when it’s not.
How Many Times A Day Can You Do It?
Not all services that take time in your office are billed per unit. Know the difference between encounter codes and timed codes, but keep documenting your time.
What is Your Initial Impression?
With the new AMA Coding Rules, making a poor first impression can negatively impact reimbursement. It may not be about impressing your audience, but it is about compliantly documenting for your audience.
If It Isn’t Written, It Didn’t Happen
We have all heard the term “location, location, location”. In the medical record, the term we must learn to do properly is documentation, documentation, documentation.