The medical billing process can be complicated. Follow this step-by-step process to ensure you do it correctly.

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 ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

A new article investigates how the way that patients are allocated diagnostic codes by a hospital can have a big effect on a hospital's performance. In this week's British Medical Journal, Nigel ...

Your doctor and medical staff may get crankier. Your health insurance claims may be denied or delayed. You could be pressured to pay health care balances in full, rather than over time. Welcome to the ...

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 ...

We are a new practice. We have nurse practitioners (NPs) who care for patients they saw at another practice. We have been advised that since this is a new practice, the patient's visit should be coded ...

The new CPT code reflects the latest efficacious medical care available to patients, facilitating adoption and utilization.The assignment of a ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Workforce shortages, regulatory complexities and economic challenges have put hospitals and health systems under immense pressure to improve operational efficiency, accelerate payments and reduce ...

Coding intensity and Medicare expenditures increased at skilled-nursing facilities after the implementation of the Patient Driven Payment Model in October 2019, according to a study published July 21 ...

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