Guest Blogger: George Themelis

George Themelis will be our featured guest blogger this week. Any blog by George will be considered of great value as his billing company, GeoMed OHIP Billing Service, has a combination of over 25 years in the health care sector and over 30 years in general business management.

The GeoMed team believes in exceptional customer service, worry-free submissions, and maximum claims revenue. George and his team achieve this by having systems in place to maximize their customer satisfaction and by looking after the physicians' needs first, ensuring daily submissions of OHIP claims and immediate follow up on rejections or errors.

Check out what George shares with us about:

• Subsequent visit code E083

For any medical billing inquiries you can find George's contact information on GeoMed's website: www.geomedbilling.com.

Post ICU billing

Content provided by Judy MacAlister

When a patient is admitted to the ward after ICU, there are specific codes that should be used by the hospitalist that is assuming the patient's care for Day 1 and Day 2 post ICU: 

Day 1 post ICU: C142 + E083 
Day 2 post ICU: C143 + E083 

Note that if you see the patient in the unit, you cannot bill  these post ICU care codes.

To clarify let me share an example: The patient is admitted from the ICU to the ward today.  Primary care is with the physician providing care in the unit for that day. You spend a little time with the patient in the unit before they are admitted to the ward and bill concurrent care.  If you provided this care in the unit and billed C101 (patient seen on a visit to ICU, Pg. GP65 in SOB 2014) instead of concurrent care, then you are unable to bill C142 and C143.  Bill concurrent care for the day of transfer only (do not bill the ICU code C101), then you are able to bill the C142 and C143 as applicable.

Guest Blogger: Linda Rehmund

Linda Rehmund is our guest blogger of the week. Linda's experience within the field of medical billing is extensive. She was a Medical Office Manager for 20+ years and is currently the 
Managing Principal of LRR Medical Billing Services.  She, as well as many others believe that medical billing professionals, with their expertise, can find additional money for physicians (not to mention they save the physicians and their staff of any billing headaches!). On her own she has over 25 years of medical billing, bookkeeping and medical transcription experience- therefore there is no doubt that the information she will be sharing with us will be valuable and can hopefully help get you some more money!  

Check out what Linda shares with us about:

• Immunizations

For any medical billing inquiries you can fine Linda's contact information on her website:

www.lrrmedicalbilling.com .

Guest Blogger: Judy MacAlister

Meet our first guest blogger, Mrs. Judy MacAlister. Judy's billing experience began when she first opened up Dr. Richard Wiginton's family practice in 1989.   In 1996 she relocated to Belleville, ON and began working with a cardiologist. In 1999 Judy became the office manager of the Cardiology Services Group and still enjoys the position today. In her full time job she bills for cardiologists, internists, as well as 8 labs.  

Judy's part-time job is her medical billing business. She is excellent with new clients, helping them every step of the way- from setting up their billing to answering all kinds of questions in between. She has experience billing for neurosurgery, internal medicine, general surgery, intensive care, inpatient hospital care, and specialty in infectious diseases. 

To date Judy has 26 years in medical billing experience and counting- proof that she has valuable information to share! 

Check out what Judy shares with us about:

• Counselling Services
• Case Conference Billing 
• Post ICU Billing 

For any medical billing inquiries you can find Judy's contact information on her website: http://www.judysohipmedicalbilling.com/ .

Mo-Billing Guest Bloggers

The best type of person to provide us with insight and knowledge on the most common medical billing mistakes is the person that processes medical billing for a living, also known as a billing agent. Mo-Billing will be starting a series where guests with useful medical billing insights will be invited to blog and share their information.

Our guest bloggers will be introduced and listed on our blog, along with the blogs they have contributed to Mo-Billing.