In today’s fast-paced healthcare environment, efficiency and accuracy are non-negotiable. Every medical practice, hospital, and healthcare system strives to optimize revenue, ensure compliance, and deliver exceptional patient care. One area [...]
Amid the complex labyrinth of healthcare administration, one area stands as a beacon of efficiency and cost-effectiveness—outsourcing medical coding. It brings an exhaustive list of benefits ranging from unburdening clinicians, [...]
In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare, staying ahead of changes while maintaining efficiency and accuracy can be a challenging task. However, there is a rising solution offering multiple benefits including [...]
Picking the right coding vendor can be challenging. There so many options and they all tell you they offer accurate coding to ensure revenue optimization and compliance risk minimization. To [...]
There is no such thing as a coder who knows it all. If your coder claims to be able to code every specialty, and you let them, you might want [...]
A troubling trend in the medical coding industry is a misleading split model where companies will have resources both onshore and abroad but not disclose which personnel are performing the [...]
Cross training sounds like it should work. A coder is a coder. Why pay a new coder to work on Orthopedics when you have two OB/GYN coders with extra capacity? [...]
After Oct. 1st, your currently paid claims can suddenly turn into denials After the ICD-10-CM transitional grace period, Medicare will no longer pay claims with diagnosis codes that are CLOSE [...]
John F. Lehrian, who is retired, and David E. Palo, of what was known as Lehrian & Palo Oral Surgery, 100 State St., pleaded not guilty to federal charges that [...]
The extreme predictions about the negative effects of moving to ICD-10 just didn’t happen. Now, over eight months later, one of the country's leading organizations which has been tracking the [...]
