For quite a long time, Medicare and Medicaid have been included on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) rundown of government programs that are at an expanded danger of misrepresentation, waste, misuse, and bungle. GAO’s investigations of...

Zion Market Research Offers an 8-Year Forecast In 110+ Pages Research Report “Medical Coding Market by Classification System (HCPCS and ICD), by Mode and by End-User: Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, and Forecast, 2018–2025” Between Forecasting Years.

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...

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...

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..

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...