October 1st may still feel a few weeks away but for hospital and physician practice coding and compliance teams the FY 2027 ICD-10 transition has already begun. CMS and the CDC [...]
The Real Cost of Coding: Beyond Salary Most healthcare finance leaders know what they pay their coding team. Fewer know the real cost of in-house medical coding — and the [...]
Why Human Validation Is Now Mission‑Critical (and How to Add It Overnight) Artificial‑intelligence engines from Aidéo, Fathom, Nym, 3M, and others are transforming medical coding speed. Yet payers haven’t lowered [...]
Summer vacations fill the calendar, and Labor Day marks the starting line of a four‑month holiday sprint. For revenue‑cycle leaders, that means one thing: charts start stacking up on Friday, coders [...]
In an era where healthcare systems are intricately tied to digital platforms, meticulous coding accuracy cannot be a mere afterthought; it is an absolute necessity. Often overlooked, coding errors are [...]
Why Conduct a Medical Coding Audit Medical coding audits ensure accurate clinical documentation, improve revenue cycle management, minimize revenue loss and coding liability, and maintain compliance with industry regulations. Improved Accuracy of [...]
Under normal circumstances, the biggest difficulty practices encounter when trying to engage in physician education is timing. Coordinating everyone’s schedules, pulling providers out of the operative and visiting rooms, and [...]
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 [...]
The coding industry is chock full of companies offering a bevy of services, one of them being coding.During our twenty five years in business, we have seen countless vendors in [...]
As many healthcare organizations seek to have their billing and coding staffs work remotely, active attempts to compromise their organization's data, via phishing and malware, are being perpetrated by foreign [...]
