Cardiology Billing Services

The rapidly evolving technology and complex diagnostic protocols has made cardiology billing a cumbersome process for many healthcare practices. This complexity of the entire process leads to considerable gaps, which, if not recognized may lead to a huge loss of time and efforts.

In fact, the constant advancements lead to ever-changing codes for almost all the procedures. When it comes to cardiology billing, there is always a possibility for up or down-coding a procedure. Since frequent changes in codes keep occurring in procedures including angioplasty, ECG recording, lilac repair, Stent replacement, etc.

Challenges in Cardiology coding & Cardiology billing services

• Providers must know whether the codes submitted by them are accepted & calls for medical necessity to be performed.
• CMS provides an exhaustive list of CPT codes and keeps an eye if the provider is correctly coding or not.
• There is a high possibility of errors while extracting data. Efforts have to be made to prevent claim denials and this requires professionalism and expertise of a very deep level.
• Looking after the finances and managing all the bills is a time-consuming process and demands a lot of attention.
• Every procedure in cardiology practice is not covered under malpractice laws. So, it is important to have a system that can handle all the data and information in a systematic manner.
  

The challenges of Cardiology Billing are inevitable. However, it is very important to take care of one thing from your end, which is to be ready for the challenges. The elimination of the above-mentioned challenges is only possible if you have a proper medical billing solution by your side to manage the financial cycle of the organization. And you don’t have to worry about anything when Unify Healthcare Services is by your side.

At Unify, we have a team of well-trained coders and billers. Our experts are well informed about the recent developments and advancements in cardiology billing. The experts take no time in identifying and fixing the issues in your billing system. This results in increased revenue, allowing you to offer the best services and care to your patients. Our expertise in Cardiology includes:

• Nuclear Cardiology
• Peripheral Studies
• Pediatric Cardiology
• Cardiac-Periphery interventions
• Diagnostic Cardiologic Procedures

Our knowledgeable team believes in creating smooth and error-free billing for your Cardiology practice.

Our team clearly understands the list of codes & suitable modifiers, applies best practices for Cardiology billing, and ensures that we stick to them. We use different billing processes depending on whether it was an inpatient or outpatient visit.

Since our experts are aware of the fact that cardiac surgery pre-authorization is essential to avoid authorization denials, we recommend the following best practices:

Using Electronic Health Records (EHR) - Using EHR systems ensures high-quality clinical documentation. Cardiology, in particular, does and can witness a lot of changes in procedures. A robust clinical documentation process helps medical practices to stay compliant.

Combo codes - For different Cardiology conditions, the ICD-10 uses a lot of combination codes. Our team of coders are well-trained in using these combination codes.

Code for diagnosis and not symptoms - Our experts are aware enough to avoid coding for symptoms that are not part of the treatment. They only code for the performed procedures and treated ailments.

Compliant coding is critical - We provide regular training to our coders so that they may stay updated on the constantly changing coding and billing guidelines. This helps them stay compliant with the coding.