Hospitalists play a crucial role in patient care, especially in inpatient settings. Using specific medical codes is essential for accurate coding and billing hospitalist services to ensure proper reimbursement. Hospitalists often deal with complex medical conditions...
The 2018 Medicare final regulations, code updates, and other changes have impacted many healthcare specialties. As of January 1, 2018, there are new codes, revised codes, and updates to coding...
Healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) plays a key role in the smooth administration of hospitals and other medical settings. Data redundancies and errors that can occur from manual processes can...
A hypertensive crisis occurs when the blood pressure rises quickly and severely with readings of 180/120 or greater. This condition affects more than 500,000 Americans each year, or approximately 1%...
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) is getting more important than ever and plays a key role in patient care as well as reimbursement for any specialty, including Orthopedics. Medical coding...
One E/M documentation challenge that medical coding outsourcing companies face is related to helping physicians report a preventive visit that becomes problem-oriented during the encounter. This is...
In 2018, reporting of orthopedic spinal procedures will be impacted by the addition of one code and deletion and revision of some musculoskeletal system codes and spine and spinal cord codes. The...
Pharyngitis is the inflammation of the pharynx which is located at the back of the throat. Often referred to as sore throat, this condition causes discomfort, pain or scratchiness in the throat...
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), previously referred to as "venereal disease", are on the rise. Common STDs include genital herpes, human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis,...
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare type of skin cancer, commonly found on the sun-exposed areas of the head and neck. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1,500 cases of MCC are...
According to a report from Markets and Markets, the global revenue cycle management (RCM) market is predicted to reach USD 90.43 billion in 2022 from USD 45.59 billion in 2016, growing at a CAGR of...
