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Tips & Tricks: Reducing Workplace Headaches

Do members of your team have to print everything to avoid getting headaches from reading off their monitor? Here are a few simple ideas to reduce headaches, improve efficiency, and cut back on printing costs. 20-20-20 Rule Every 20 minutes, look away from your screen at an object roughly 20

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05/26/2010: Successful SymKey Go Live at MedPOINT Management

HCIM’s newest client, MedPOINT Management, signed a three-year licensing agreement for the SymKey® for EZ-CAP® Professional Claims module and Virtual Auto-Post™ module in February 2010. MedPOINT went live on the SymKey Professional Claims module and Virtual Auto-Post module in March and April, respectively.

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Can BPA help you ditch the Sticky Notes?

During my time spent as an Operations Manager, I remember that my claims processors had sticky notes all over their monitors and cheat sheets that they would use to remind them of manual or special processes for certain providers or members. Not everyone had the same sticky notes, nor did they

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Tips & Tricks: Simple Switches to Improve Your Bottom Line

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000 every year by changing their default e-mail font. Read more >> Switch your Font Research has found that switching from Arial to Century Gothic for printing will result in a 31% ink savings. How much could you

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FAQ: How do I view batch report information for an entire month?

Answer: From the left side of the SymKey main menu, click the Productivity Reports link in the Reports section. SymKey’s productivity reports are an aggregate of your daily batches, viewable by month, year, or pend reasons, depending on which report you select. The reports allow you to quickly view performance data, claims processed,

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Components of ICD-10

ICD–10 consists of: tabular lists containing cause-of-death titles and codes (Volume 1) inclusion and exclusion terms for cause-of-death titles (Volume 1) description, guidelines, and coding rules (Volume 2) an alphabetical index to diseases and nature of injury, external causes of injury, table of drugs and chemicals (Volume 3) ICD–10 Chapter

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FAQ: Why can’t I see the SymKey configuration options?

Answer: There are three security levels that determine what the user has access to: The User role has access to SymKey’s modules in order to run batches and view reports and documentation. The Admin role has the ability to change much of the configuration in SymKey, including configuring users, passwords, and

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What is the difference between ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS?

ICD–10–CM Diagnosis Codes The CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) developed the ICD–10–CM code set, following a voluntary consensus-based process and working closely with specialty societies to ensure clinical utility and subject matter expert input into the process of creating the clinical modifications, with comments from a number of

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SymKey for EZ-CAP v. 1.31 General Release

HealthCare Information Management, Inc. (HCIM) is pleased to announce the general release of SymKey® for EZ-CAP® version 1.31, effective April 7, 2010. Many enhancements have been made to SymKey® for EZ-CAP® v. 1.30, including two new advanced standard scenario actions, a new scenario summary feature, and more. For a comprehensive

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