In today’s competitive healthcare environment, financial stability is as critical as clinical excellence. Accurate medical coding is essential for proper reimbursement, compliance, and data integrity. However, maintaining a skilled team of coders in-house can be...
Autumn is a beautiful season but it also brings lower temperatures, which can cause a host of ailments. Physicians need to be ready with the ICD-10 codes for these common seasonal conditions and outsourcing medical coding to an experienced service provider is a...
The flu season in the United States runs from October to May, and peaks between December and February. The 2017-2018 flu season was one of the deadliest in the history of the nation and claimed 80,000 lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Failing to provide accurate information and the right codes to support claims can lead to denials or delays as well as allegations of improper billing practices. Outsourcing medical coding tasks allows physicians to keep up to date with rules and avoid medical coding...
According to the latest Black Book survey, medical coding outsourcing and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) efforts have seen more accurate claims coding, increased case mix indexes, and enhanced operational efficiencies. The survey was conducted to determine...
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