March 17 is the celebration day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. But St. Paddy’s Day is now celebrated around the world with feasting, drinking, and partying. These ICD-10 codes may come in handy during the holiday shenanigans: I25.810 Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Corned beef and cabbage are staples at any St. Patrick’s … Continued
Join the AdvancedMD ICD-10 Experts as we help you find the perfect EHR and practice management software to encourage a seamless flow of ICD-10 information. During this recorded webinar, you’ll learn the features and functionality any EHR system should provide to help you achieve ICD-10 success, how EHR systems can help you test your ICD-10 … Continued
The only thing that may be more stressful than selecting your first EHR system is selecting a replacement EHR. Many practices are finding that their first EHR system lacked the functionality and vendor support to help them meet Meaningful Use requirements, prepare for ICD-10 and streamline workflow. Although EHR shopping can seem daunting, providers can’t … Continued
Introducing the new AdvancedMD ICD-10 Toolkit, a free app from the Apple App Store that gives private practices a suite of ICD-10 preparation tools. Track preparedness for ICD-10, compare ICD-9 codes with the ICD-10 equivalents, view potential risk assessments, use as a quick and convenient search for ICD-10 codes, add ICD-10 codes to charge slip … Continued
Need to access a patient record in 5 seconds or less? Piece of cake! AdvancedMD EHR now features patient lookup on one line. Search from any screen using the conveniently located search bar in the chart header. You can search by: Patient name Patient date of birth Patient phone number Patient chart number This new … Continued
Healthcare has entered into an era where it must compete for the patient’s time and attention. Cloud computing is now a pervasive enabler of most every technology that physicians can and should be leveraging. The cloud is the platform to properly support security, mobility and flexibility to the ever-changing regulatory landscape. Practice management, EHR, patient … Continued
Healthcare has entered into an era where it must compete for the patient’s time and attention. Cloud computing is now a pervasive enabler of most every technology that physicians can and should be leveraging. The cloud is the platform to properly support security, mobility and flexibility to the ever-changing regulatory landscape. The cloud is not … Continued
Verifying that your EHR and practice management bundle (or separate systems) is up for the ICD-10 challenge may be the most important step to ensuring your own compliance. This guide provides 12 critical questions that every private practice must ask its EHR vendor, or risk being left high and dry come October 1, 2015. Your … Continued
The ICD-10 delay may mean another year to get familiar with the new coding requirements. To help you warm up to ICD-10, we’ve selected the most frigid, icy codes that are perfectly fit to the winter misadventures you’ll be documenting in 2015. T33.5 Superficial Frostbite of Wrist and Hand Everyone loves a good snowball fight—until … Continued
When you think of romance, EHR and medical billing probably aren’t the first things that come to mind. However, with the new knock-your-socks-off specificity of ICD-10, you’ll be prepared to code all the sweet happenings and heartbreaking mishaps of Valentine’s Day in 2016. Let’s get a head-start by reviewing the best ICD-10 codes for the … Continued
An ICD-10 implementation process is overwhelming to most small, independent physician practices. Your time is extremely limited dealing with prior authorizations, seeing patients, billing and claim processing, managing a practice and office personnel, and you have few extra resources to help, let alone time to focus on ICD-10 implementation. AdvancedMD has been long viewed a … Continued
As of November 1, 2014, only 2% of eligible professionals had attested to Meaningful Use 2. This is not good news for the thousands of independent physician practices that rely on Medicare payments: the Center for Medicare Services is slated to hand out 1% penalties this year for MU2 slackers—which is estimated to total $1.15B. … Continued