by Rajeev Rajagopal | Posted: Dec 27, 2016 | Medical Billing
The Centers for Medicare and Medicare (CMS) has released new health insurance market place rules which will take effect from January 17, 2017. Referred to as the “payment notice,” the rule is an annual CMS omnibus rule that covers all the major changes that CMS plans...
by Meghann Drella | Posted: Dec 6, 2016 | Medical Coding
Utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP) based technology and big data analytics, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) health plan has successfully processed millions of clinical documents to accurately identify risk adjustment or HCC coding...
by Julie Clements | Posted: May 18, 2016 | Medical Coding
The Medicare risk adjusted payment model is one of the major changes that have impacted physician practice revenue since it was introduced. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses the HCC (Hierarchical Condition Category) risk stratification...
