The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was tired of paying too much for care in nursing homes. They were tired of fighting with lawyers and consultants driving up payments and gaming the system. 

Medical coding is a key component of revenue cycle management. When done efficiently and accurately, it helps ensure hospitals are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. Here are 15 things to know about medical coding:

I’d like to share some information gained from appealing over 2,000 clinical validation denials for sepsis in the state of New York since the time of the release of the Sepsis-3 criteria in February 2016.

Nurse practitioner and pharmacy technician are among the most sought-after healthcare jobs this year , according to a salary guide from staffing firm Randstad US.

Thirty-eight hospitals filed a lawsuit against HHS over a $380 million reduction in Medicare reimbursement to hospitals under a new outpatient site-neutral payment policy. The lawsuit alleges that...