Pathology Lab Coding Alert

12 monthly issues / 8 or more pages per issue / 12 months + member access to online archives + extras
Approved for 10 AAPC CEUs
ASIN: B00007B0EB
Coding Institute / Eli Healthcare

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Receive all the reimbursement your pathology department or path lab rightfully deserves.

This is the only monthly newsletter devoted exclusively to helping pathology departments (in facilities), laboratories, and practitioners solve their unique coding challenges.

It provides you with expert advice and strategies to ethically receive improved reimbursement when coding for procedures such as special stains, decalcify tissue, pathology consult in surgery, interpretation of smear and much more. Compliance field tips and tools are also provided in the newsletter.

These credible coding experts comprise the editorial board for this newsletter:

Laurie Castillo, MA, CPC, CPC-H, CCS-P, President, Professional Coding & Compliance, AAPC National Advisory Board Member, Past-President, AAPC Northern Virginia Chapter
William Dettwyler, MT, AMT
Stacey Hall, RHIT, CPC, CCS-P, RRC, Director of Corporate Coding, Medical Management Professionals, GA
Barbara Johnson, CPC, MPC, Loma Linda University, Anesthesiology Medical Group
Karen Machen, MD, Staff Pathologist, St. John West Shore Hospital, OH
Janet McDiarmid, CMM, CPC, MPC, Past-President, AAPC, National Advisory Board
Ron Nelson, PA-C, Past-President, American Academy of Physician Assistants
Dennis Padget, MBA, CPA, FHFMA
Cory Roberts, MD, Director of Anatomic Pathology, St. Paul University Hospital, TX
Debbie Siena, HT (ASCP), QIHC, Histopathology Manager, Baylor University Medical Center, TX
Elizabeth Sheppard, HT (ASCP), Manager, Anatomic Pathology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, NC
Peggy Slagle, CPC, Manager of Compliance & Billing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Dept. of Pathology & Microbiology, NE
Lena Spencer, BLS, MA, HT (ASCP), HTL, QIHC, President, National Society for Histotechnology
R.M. Stainton, MD, President, Doctor's Anatomic Pathology Service, AR
Robin Stombler, President, Auburn Health Strategies
Sharon Tucker, CPC, Past-President and Board Chair, Southern California AAHAM, President, Health Care Managers Association of Southern California, CA
Stanley Werner, MT (ASCP), Administrator, Peterson Clinical Laboratory, KS
Edward Wilkinson, MD, FACOG, FCAP, Past-President, American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology; President, Florida Society of Pathologists; Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Florida, College of Medicine, FL
Kenneth Wolfgang, MT (ASCP), CPC, CPC-H
Steven Yurco, MD, MBA, Partner, Clinical Pathology Associates, TX

Reading of this newsletter has been approved by the American Academy of Professional Coders for up to 10 CEUs. When you subscribe to this monthly print newsletter, you will also receive these extras:

member access to all archived editions of this publication online. This will allow you to search the database by keyword;
member access to coding discussion groups in your coding specialty. This allows you to ask advice in real time from others in your field.

The Coding Institute, located in Washington DC, is a fast-growing well-respected national medical newsletter publishing company catering to the needs of physicians, hospitals, and their medical practice staff. When you subscribe to this publication, you will be part of an exciting nationwide group of coders, office managers, experts and consultants all interested in enhancing their coding and reimbursement knowledge. The Coding Institute is part of Eli Research. Eli Research is a research and information company with over 60 publications serving core markets of health care, law and financial services. They currently serve a reader base of over 100,000 business executives nationwide, 80 percent of whom are top officers at their respective companies. Their roots go back to 1947 with the founding of Medicine and Health -- the oldest health policy newsletter in the country. They acquired the Washington DC-based Health Care Information Center, including Medicine and Health and 30 other titles formerly published by Faulkner and Gray. They have focused exclusively on providing high-quality news and analysis for professionals who need critical news and information to survive and prosper. They have distinguished themselves from other publishers by providing intelligent analysis of new strategies, rather than simply reporting on industry development.

Receive all the reimbursement your pathology department or path lab rightfully deserves.

Please remember that the government no longer allows a grace period for annual code sets. The new HIPAA Transaction and Code Set Rule requires providers to use national medical code sets that are valid at the time that a service is provided. ICD-9-CM code revisions become effective October 1st each year while CPT and HCPCS code revisions become effective January 1st. In order for you to meet this requirement, you must have the revised CPT, HCPCS, and ICD-9-CM codes in your possession before the implementation dates. The best way to do this is to order your code books early.

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