Medical coding is the process under which hospitals translate crucial medical information related to each patient into simple codes for documenting medical records and for ease in medical billing and ...
Clinical decision-making, hospital management, and patient care have all changed as a result of healthcare technology. Nurses have historically been thought of as providing bedside care, but they are ...
Revenue cycle management performance has never been more important. And recent advances in technology, particularly artificial intelligence, offer much potential for healthcare's administrative ...
On January 1, 2021, new evaluation and management (E&M) coding guidelines for clinical office visits go into effect across the US. These guidelines, which reflect the most significant change in E&M ...
ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014, and will require health care organizations to switch from the soon-to-be outdated ICD-9. Srividya ...
Katie Palmer covers telehealth, clinical artificial intelligence, and the health data economy — with an emphasis on the impacts of digital health care for patients, providers, and businesses. You can ...
Claims data, which form the foundation of risk adjustment in payment for health care services, may reflect efforts to capture more—or more severe—clinical conditions rather than true changes in health ...
AI-powered coding is causing a paradigm shift in healthcare’s operational efficiency, staffing and revenue integrity. However, many leaders have a flawed understanding of its capabilities and what it ...
Artiticifial intelligence technology company Suki announced an expansion for its assisted revenue cycle capabilities powered that they say will improve clinician documentation accuracy and save ...