The Thursday Talk: A Coder And A Clinician

Welcome to the Thursday Talk with the Provider Partner. This is a Healthcare Revenue Cycle Podcast. Tracy Olsten and Dr. Charles Hunley are the Coder and Clinician, empowering healthcare providers to achieve financial solvency through transparent insights, proactive management strategies, and expert coaching and consulting.

In this episode we discuss some of the issues and problems providers are facing with their credentialing and how they are being reimbursed by insurance companies. We are joined by Saliha Javid, credentialing specialist. With over 15 years experience in credential contracting, Saliha possesses an invaluable combination of deep expertise and strategic influence to help providers leverage the best terms for their contracts. Providers must understand that these payers need you in their network just as much as you need their contracts to be a network provider. The Provider Partner is your advocate for negotiating the best terms for you.

The Provider Partner was born from the personal and professional experiences of Charles Hunley, MD and Tracy Olsten CPC, CPMA, CPC-I, CMCS, CMSCS.

On this episode of the Thursday Talk, we discuss the new Evaluations and Management Services Guide.

On this episode, the provider partner Tracy Olstine and Dr. Charles will be discussing Incident to Versus Split/Shared Encounters.

On this episode we discuss advanced care planning and how it can help the healthcare revenue cycle.

On this episode we talk about 2023 emergency medicine guidelines and what coders and clinicians need to know.

On this episode of The Thursday Talk we talk about the terms people should familiarize themselves with.

CMS defines social determinants of health as "the range of social, environmental, and economic factors that can influence health status-conditions that can often have a greater impact on health outcomes than the actual delivery of health services."

In this episode we discuss the 2023 ICD-10-CM coding changes. With over 1400 code additions, what exactly do physicians and coders alike need to know? What is the best way to get your clinicians onboard with the changes?

On this episode we tackle two common questions:

1. Why are modifiers important?

2. Is it important for a provider to know the modifiers that are appropriate for their speciality?

On this Episode Tracy Olsten and Charles Hunley discuss the global period and multiple trauma patients.