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Medical Transcription: Its Past, Present, and Future
Medical Transcription has become a common term today and is about human beings listening and typing out physician dictations. Technological advances have always defined the medical transcription process. It will continue to be so and one wonders what... Medical Transcription and TASP
Medical Transcription is not a cottage industry anymore as it used to be a few years ago. Digitization in this sector has changed the scenario and work environment. Earlier, I remember the days when Medical Transcriptionists (MT) had to take trips ev... The Medical Transcription Professional
A Medical transcription professional is often referred to as a medical transcriber or just as an MT. Earlier in the late 1990s medical transcription professionals were also called as Medical language specialists or Health Information Management profe... The Medical Transcription Team
In any average sized medical transcription unit one will come across a team of people who are seen executing the project. Like in any team, medical transcription work also requires the services of team members with different skill sets that will have... HCPCS Coding
HCPCS (The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System) is a type of medical coding system. Medical coding today is fundamental to medical record keeping, besides being indispensable in the gathering and communicating of public health statistics. They ... Critical Care and Transcription
Medical transcription has become a specialized profession today. With so many different branches in medicine even experienced medical transcription professionals have to choose a particular branch of medicine to and specialize at transcription in tha... Medical Billing /Coding and the DRG (Diagnosis-Related Group)
What is DRG? Well, Diagnosis-related group (DRG) is a system to classify hospital cases. Historically all healthcare payments were made only after the health care service was given. During the 1970s period of high inflation, health care costs soared ... Medical Billing and Non Physician Practitioners (NPP)
Non-Physician Practitioners could not bill Medicare independently before the year 1986. By non physicians we are referring to the Physician Assistants (PA)Nurse Practitioners (NP)It was the 1986 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act that first authorise... Medical Coding and the NCCI (National Correct Coding Initiative)
Medical coding or medical classification is defined as the process of transforming descriptions of medical diagnoses and procedures into universal medical code numbers. What is the NCCI and what is its purpose? NCCI refers to National Correct Coding ... Health Level 7 and Medical Coding
What is Health Level 7 (HL7) and its function? Well, in the health care sector we know standards are very important. The American National standards Institute (ANSI) has accredited many Standards Developing Organizations and HL7 is one of such intern...
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