How Accurate Cardiology Billing Improves Revenue Cycle Performance
Cardiology is one of the most active and complicated medical specialties. Whether you take care of patients in general cardiology, pediatric cardiology, or interventional cardiology, how you bill directly links to your revenue cycle. From complex procedures like iliac artery repair, a stent placement to routine ECG readings, all it takes is a minor error in the coding or documentation. Why is Cardiology Billing So Complex? Any cardiac procedure has its own unique challenges. Cardiology has a higher demand for hyper-details in documentation since many procedures have component parts that require the necessary documentation. A routine ECG recording takes on a completely new dimension when payers expect documentation to justify reimbursement. Cardiology-related CPT and ICD-10 codes change routinely for billing clues as technology advances. Outdated codes or missing a modifier ultimately affects revenue and costly administrative penalty. The field of cardiology contains various subspecialt...