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| You Still Have Time to Save! |
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The Medical Billing Course price increase will not
take affect until 10 PM CST tonight, March 1, 2006!
There will be an $80 price increase on the Medical
Billing Course. When you purchase the Full Course,
the $99 registration fee is automatically
waived. If you are interested in the Medical
Billing Course at Medical
Billing Course.com, you can save a total
of $179 if you purchase by 10 PM CST tonight!
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| Update on 1500 Claim Form Approval |
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The Federal Register announced on Friday
February 24, 2006 a 30-day comment period on the
revised 1500 Claim Form. Following the 30-day
comment period, OMB will review the comments
received. A determination for approval or further
revision of the form will be made at that time.
The NUCC recommended timeline for transitioning to
the new version of the 1500 Claim Form is as follows:
- October 1, 2006
Health plans, clearinghouses, and other information
support vendors should be ready to handle and
accept the revised (08/05) 1500 Claim Form.
- October 1, 2006 – February 1, 2007
Providers can use either the current (12/90) version
or the revised (08/05) version of the 1500 Claim Form.
- February 1, 2007
The current (12/90) version of the 1500 Claim Form
is discontinued; only the revised (08/05) form is to
be used. All rebilling of claims should use the revised
(08/05) form from this date forward, even though
earlier submissions may have been on the current
(12/90) 1500 Claim Form.
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| BC Advantage Magazine Continues to Impress! |
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We told you about the Dec/Jan issue of BC
Advantage Magazine, the publication for
Medical Billing & Coding. We received our
Feb/March edition and the publication continues
to impress us! Fantasic articles,
wonderful resources!
If you haven't subscribed yet, now is the
time. Don't miss another issue!
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Success Corner - Nancy Browner |
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Nancy Browner
Reliable Billing Solutions, LLC
Sterling, Colorado
Sterling, Colorado was a quiet, safe and secure
environment for me, then it happened. Our
business office was closed when a large company
bought the hospital and everything was centralized
to Greeley. Going to Greeley was not an
option, it was a two hour drive, so I took
another leap and went to a hospital in Sidney,
Nebraska as the Manager of their Business Office and
Admissions. I have always wanted to do
billing on my own, but never really knew how to
start. Sidney was what I needed, the
controller at the hospital had a sister-in-law that had
her own billing center for 9 years and I began
talking with her. Things got really bad at the
hospital between my boss and I and that was the
push that I needed to get off my chair and
get out on my own.
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