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Did Patient’s Insurance Change? Auths, In-network Status May Change Too
Patients often fail to tell patient access if their coverage changes, and eligibility verification software responses do not always catch it. This article discusses steps that can help prevent claims denials.
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Provide Indisputable Proof: Patient Meets Criteria for Level of Care
Increasingly, payers are disputing the patient’s level of care, resulting in denied claims. This article discusses ways to help prevent lost revenue.
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Make ‘Peer-to-Peer’ Happen Within 24 Hours, Or Face Denied Claim
Payers are requiring time frames as short as 24 hours for peer-to-peers between the patient’s and payer’s physicians, or they’ll deny the claim. This article discusses several strategies that can make this conversation happen quickly enough to avoid denials.
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Coding Is Must-have Skill for Patient Access: Fix Errors Before Denial Comes
Coding has become an essential skill for patient access, in light of the surge in claims denials occurring due to the switch to ICD-10. This article will discuss steps patient access can take to ensure correct coding.
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Does Postpartum Use of Hormonal Contraception Increase Risk of Depression?
An analysis of a large insurance database showed no consistent effect between postpartum initiation of hormonal contraception and the subsequent diagnosis of depression.
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Does Postpartum Use of Hormonal Contraception Increase Risk of Depression?
An analysis of a large insurance database showed no consistent effect between postpartum initiation of hormonal contraception and the subsequent diagnosis of depression.
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Should Endocervical Curettage Be Performed Routinely During Colposcopy?
In this study, routine endocervical curettage (ECC) among women age 30 and older detected CIN 2 or worse in 14.4% of cases with higher likelihood of detection among women with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion, ASC-H, positive HPV 16 infection, or high grade colposcopic impression. The additional yield of ECC over lesion-directed ectocervical biopsies decreased with each additional biopsy.
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Dating Pregnancy: What Is the Most Accurate Method?
The NICHD Fetal Growth Studies – Singletons investigation recently yielded a new formula for determining gestational age based on standard biometric information. When compared to an often-used formula, it appeared to be more accurate after 21 weeks of gestation.
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What Do the Urinary Microbiota and Incontinence Have to Do With Each Other?
Increased diversity of the microbiota in women is associated with urgency urinary incontinence symptoms but not with stress urinary incontinence symptoms.
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Purdue IRB Shuts Down Youth Study
An IRB at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, has terminated a study of young people with high blood pressure after a youth camp last summer was plagued by multiple incidents of violence and sexual harassment.