Enhance Your Oncology Claims With These Expert Tips

Many coders are taking the "wait and see" approach regarding how the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will affect their day-to-day job functions. In that decision, the Supreme Court ruled the requirement that individuals must have health care coverage or face a penalty was an allowable tax (rather than a penalty). But the Court decided the federal government couldn’t require states to expand existing Medicaid programs by planning to disqualify noncompliant states from Medicaid funding.

Here are a few ACA areas to watch for hematology and oncology: preventive services, clinical trials, pre-existing conditions, ACOs, and MPPR.

Having expert advice about the hottest oncology topics like these means you can boost your coding accuracy, decrease denials, and safeguard your payments. That’s why you should keep yourself current with oncology audio conferences.

You’ll find such conference topics as:

• 2013 Oncology Coding Update

  Make sure you apply these updates to bone marrow services and E/M guidelines, or you could be facing a denial.

• Coding Skin Lesions And Lipomas

  Discover when and how to code for lesions/skin cancers.

• Coding for Injections and Infusions

  &Here’s the documentation you need to capture these services. 
• And more!

Bottom line: You don't have time to weed through the never-ending onslaught of information about oncology coding and coverage, so let us do it for you.