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Insurance Billing Made Easy Update + ICD-10 Ready EASY

9/15/2015

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Insurance Billing Made Easy, Update News


Yes, you may have thought I dropped off the face of the earth while in fact, I've been hard at work managing a busy practice, 2 kids and a mother with dementia, ha! I've also been hard at work updating Insurance Billing Made Easy for ICD-10, but unfortunately the fates have aligned against me and I have some bad news.

Insurance Billing Made Easy v2 will not be out this year. 

I am so close to having the edits completed, but my mother's health has been declining this year and, after a stroke just a few weeks ago, it is clear that I cannot make the necessary time to complete my book update.

So, on October 1st the price of the book will drop by 50% to reflect the non-ICD-10 ready nature of the guide.

The process and information in my book is still relevant and viable, however, so its still a good and worthwhile read if you want to understand insurance! I will be working on the update as early as I can in 2016 and publishing through Amazon with both a print and e-book version thereafter.


Where Do I Get ICD-10 Codes and Conversion Services EASILY??!

The GOOD news is that ICD-10 really does NOT have to be hard at all. Even if you've hardly prepared, you're in for a treat because there are great services for code conversion available and I'm going to tell you where to find them!

My favorite by far is the integrated ClientTracker Code Converter because I literally have to do nothing! If you use ClientTracker and you're in the cloud (recommended!) this is provided to you for free. You enter a diagnosis by name, or by the ICD-9 code and it automatically shows you the ICD-10 options. You pick, the system codes your SOAP note and invoice and voila! Coding is done.

Office Ally also has a free ICD-10 code search tool. You can choose to look up ICD-9 or ICD-10 codes by number or by description. It doesn't convert codes for you, but it will show them to you with a very simple search such as "pain" or "shoulder." Very handy.

Last recommend ICD-10 conversion tool is the AAC Network AcuCode Digital Coding Tool. For an annual fee, you have access to the website where you can enter a description or an ICD-9 diagnosis code and it will list all the ICD-10 codes for you. Efficient and accurate!

I'm afraid that is all the news for now. I have some very helpful updates planned for IBME - tables to help compare digital practice management systems, summary recaps of each chapter to highlight important points, an expanded section on charting, a print version and more! I'm very excited and very close to completion, but due to my mother's health and needs it just has to be on the back burner for a while.

I appreciate all of your patience and patronage! Please don't hesitate to stay in touch and submit questions. Since I am still editing, if there are specific things YOU want to see more of in my next version, let me know! I'll do my best to accommodate your requests.

Until next time, here's to you business success,

~Rebecca Hurwood, LAc
2 Comments
Monica
2/23/2016 05:59:30 pm

Hi Rebecca,

I have a question about Regence. I have two patients with Regence. I am an out of network provider. Regence used to pay my entire amount billed but this year they moved to pay less than 1/3 of what I billed. Have the service codes changed for billing because now they don't pay for an office call. Do you have a recommendation of what service codes I should bill that would get approval? Any tips on billing with Regence are welcome.
Sorry to hear about your Mom. All the best to you and her.
Thank you for your time.

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Rebecca Hurwood link
2/24/2016 12:33:44 pm

Hi Monica,

Great question and happy to help. Yes, there are some Regence plans that no longer cover a separate office visit from an LAc - remember that a 97810 or a 97813 includes "intake sufficient to place needles" so unless you add a modifier (usually -25) to an office visit code to clarify that it is unique to this and necessary, they sometimes will not pay. I had a case of this recently as an in network provider and when I called, it was a glitch in their system (which of course they were happy to overlook if I hadn't called). It happened for all the patients I had within a certain group (same employer) but once we reviewed it they did pay. The codes for Acupuncture have not changed with ICD-10, only the diagnosis codes so this is not the issue. It is more likely that it is either plan changes for the patient or a mistake on their part requiring follow up. I hope that helps, let me know how it all shakes out Monica! And thanks for the well wishes. My mom is doing well in memory care now, but we are still navigating the transition and will be until Summer most likely. Good luck, keep me in the loop!!

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    Rebecca MH Kitzerow is a Licensed Acupuncturist working in Portland, Oregon and La Center, WA.  Dedicated to her practice, her family and the entrepreneurial small business spirit, Rebecca wrote Insurance Billing Made Easy in 2010 as an attempt to help other practitioners learn concisely what she had to figure out by trial and error - that a little know how + a willingness to jump in and try go a long way to making billing insurance a breeze.  Rebecca currently runs a solopreneur practice and completes her insurance billing in 20 minutes a week.  She's here to show YOU how to do it too!

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