Medicare Weekly Update Newsletter

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This is a link to the archives for a free weekly newsletter on

updates posted to the CMS.gov web portal. A lot of the coding information

I post comes from information posted here. I realize that I represent a

minority, but I truly believe that at least the basics of Medical coding should

be included in residency training. I am not saying that doctors need to

become CPC certified, but if doctors in training aren’t at least educated

during residency on the basics of CPT, ICD-9/10 and HCPCS coding, they won’t

know if the people they hire to do the nitty gritty coding everyday are billing

correctly for the services they performed. Since ultimately the doctor

will be held responsible for all fraudulent billing claims, and could result in

the loss of their medical license, I am not willing to rely on someone else

without at least a basic understanding of medical billing and coding. In

fact, I personally believe that Medical coding has become such a quagmire of

murky water because insurance companies rely on the murkiness of the rules to

improve their profits due to all the money left on the table each year by

doctors, hospitals and allied health professionals.

Check out the archives above, and if interested subscribe to the

weekly update newsletter. You may find a little extra income that you

didn’t know you could bill for just because of you lack of knowledge.

Dr. Beth Ann Sullivan, DO

Commerce, GA