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Posts by Topic: Billing and Coding

March 1, 2023
How a Payer Rules Filter Can Reduce Denials

By Tammy McCausland

This blog post is modified from an article that appeared in Radiation Oncology News for Administrators Vol 32 No 5.  

Denial are complex, time consuming, costly to rectify and increasing yearly.

Payers complicate the billing process by creating their own rules. And now they’re using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to deny more claims.1

Tags: Billing and Coding, Payer Trends
November 10, 2021
Billing and Coding Q&A–Part 4

Teri Bedard, Executive Director, Client & Corporate Resources with Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies, discusses new technologies. This content originally appeared in Radiation Oncology News for Administrators, Vol. 31 No. 3.

By Tammy McCausland
Tags: Billing and Coding, Technology
October 28, 2021
Billing and Coding Q&A–Part 3

Teri Bedard, Executive Director, Client & Corporate Resources with Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies, discusses the impact of COVID-19, telehealth, and hypofractionation. This content originally appeared in Radiation Oncology News for Administrators, Vol. 31 No. 3.

By Tammy McCausland
Tags: COVID-19, Billing and Coding
October 12, 2021
Billing and Coding Q&A–Part 2

Teri Bedard, Executive Director, Client & Corporate Resources with Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies, discusses the RO-APM. This content originally appeared in Radiation Oncology News for Administrators, Vol. 31 No. 3.

By Tammy McCausland
Tags: Billing and Coding, Payer Trends
September 30, 2021
Billing and Coding Q&A–Part 1

Teri Bedard, Executive Director, Client & Corporate Resources with Revenue Cycle Coding Strategies, discusses some common billing and coding issues. This content originally appeared in Radiation Oncology News for Administrators, Vol. 31 No. 3.

By Tammy McCausland
Tags: Billing and Coding, Payer Trends
May 19, 2021
The Dietitian's Role in Oncology

Medical nutrition therapy (MNT) improves patients’ ability to tolerate treatment, quality of life during and post-treatment, and survival. MNT reduces weight loss, unplanned hospitalizations, lengths of stay in hospital and breaks in treatment. More than 50 percent of cancer patients exhibit nutritional risk factors at their initial oncology visit, and roughly 80 percent of these patients experience malnutrition at some point during treatment

By Tammy McCausland
Tags: Billing and Coding
April 23, 2020
Radiation Oncology Code Capture Challenges

Radiation oncology code capture is one of the most difficult areas of code captures in all of medicine. 

By Susan Vannoni
Tags: Billing and Coding
January 29, 2020
2020 CMS Final Rules: Q&A with Jim Hugh

In this Q&A, Jim Hugh, senior vice president of American Medical Accounting and Consulting, Inc., (AMAC) shared his thoughts on the 2020 CMS Final Rules.

By Tammy McCausland, Jim Hugh