Compliance is a large part of our duties in healthcare. It is especially true for coding. With so many regulations, the audit atmosphere and payment nightmares, quite simply we are a moving target. For those of us in the...
CMS Mulls Regulating Shared Space in Provider-based Settings
At the American Health Lawyers Association Medicare and Medicaid conference in March, David Wright, acting deputy director for the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality from CMS described forthcoming guidance from...
210+ healthcare revenue cycle companies to know in 2019
Hospitals, health systems, physician practices and healthcare organizations are experiencing increasingly complex revenue cycles, working with government and private payers as well as patients to collect. Here are more than 210 companies with revenue cycle..
Computer-Assisted Coding – It’s Not Artificial Intelligence
I know that numerous articles and even some books have listed the pros and cons of artificial intelligence (AI). Discussion of the technology in relation to computer-assisted coding (CAC) dramatically ramped up with the implementation of the...
It may not be skydiving, but the top item on the "bucket list" of Terry Edwards, MD, is a bold leap in an age of ever larger healthcare conglomerates. This spring, Edwards will launch his own primary care practice in...
Coding Clinic Offers Important Guidelines for Coding BMI
Spring has arrived in the Northeast and people are getting back to their exercise schedules. I was thinking about this topic as I was reading Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 2018. One of the big topics in this issue is body mass index (BMI) (Z68.-).
