The Medical Minute – MMI Medical Blog
National Women’s Health Week
National Women’s Health Week is a week to serve as a reminder for women to make their health a priority as well as building positive, lifelong healthy habits. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s Health oversees National Women’s Health...
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Healthcon 2019 Wrap-Up
MMI attended AAPC’s Healthcon 2019. Healthcon 2018 was MMI’s first time back to Healthcon in a few years, but we were more than excited to exhibit again. Healthcon 2019 was definitely one for the books for MMI. Las Vegas was an amazing time, although Pacific Time did...
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Billing for Procedures Using Devices
We all know there are manufacturers and distributors. A manufacturer typically builds equipment or devices, takes them through Federal Drug Administration testing and then applies for a Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) or a Healthcare Common Procedural Coding...
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Incident To – The Finer Points
“Incident to” is a topic that has been covered for years at various association meetings and articles, yet the subject is continually misunderstood. I would like to review the finer points as a refresher as I continue to hear the same questions. There may be more...
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Medicare’s What’s Covered App
Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created the What’s Covered App since two thirds of Medicare patients use the Internet daily. The What’s Covered App gives consumers access to the most used information of the website (Medicare.gov). CMS released a...
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Add-On Codes Primary Care and Specialists Need to Know for 2021
The 2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) proposed rule discussed potential add-on codes to represent Evaluation and Management complexity, it has been delayed until 2021. The proposed add-on code was a way to add reimbursement in the new territory of blended...
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Keeping Up With Telehealth
Telehealth uses telecommunication to facilitate care from a distance using video chap applications like Skype and FaceTime via computer or mobile device. Rock Health reported that 75% of consumers used at least one channel to access telehealth in 2018, which was...
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Creating a LinkedIn Account to Find a Coding Job
Finding a job used to mean you would fill out an application and hope they would give you a call. Now one of the best ways to get your name out there is to create a great, professional LinkedIn profile. The first thing you should do, if you have yet to already, is to...
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How to Code Opioid Use Disorder
Opioid abuse, addiction, and overdoses are a serious public health problem and grouped together as Opioid Use Disorder. The National Institute on Drug Abuse says more than 115 people in the United States die daily from overdosing on opioids. The CDC estimates $78.5...
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Job Growth in Healthcare
The healthcare sector created 1 out of 7 new US jobs in 2018 based off preliminary data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Although most of the jobs reported are clinical based, that means there is a growing demand for support ranks such as coding,...
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