Practice Management
A new study by Safe Kids Worldwide reveals more than 400,000 children are injured in bike, scooter, skateboard, and roller blade accidents every year. Now that wheels of every variety are coming out of the garage for the first time in months, there’s an opportunity to stress your urgent care center’s vital role in community health and safety—before and after injuries occur. First, ask patients if they’re planning to make good on promises to get …
Read MoreQ. How do I talk to my providers about the documentation to support specific International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes when most of them do not really know the codes, but they know the terminology? A. Now that we are 1 year into using ICD-10-CM codes, most expect the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to lift the grace period for allowing providers to assign unspecified diagnosis codes. It is …
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