The 20-year-old evaluation and management (E&M) documentation guidelines are full of different components and elements, all of which must be reviewed in order to ensure that services billed were appropriately documented.

I expect that 2019 will be the “Year of Interoperability”. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, through its hospital and physician incentive programs, is asking providers to have their electronic health records capable of...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more common in healthcare systems, healthcare professionals must ask the right questions for AI to live up to expectations, according to a viewpoint article published in JAMA.

Growth is being driven largely by the use of these solutions to reduce healthcare costs, decrease billing and coding errors and maintain compliance.

The ratio of observed-to-expected deaths is considered a measure of hospital quality. Recording accurate metrics depends on capturing all relevant diagnoses to optimize the expected mortality denominator. The explanatory variables...