When is the last time your hospital, health system or organization looked at codes and clinical documentation to ensure everything was compliant with law and best practices? If revenue cycle teams are ...

Perhaps no process has as great an impact on a hospital’s revenue cycle as procedure documentation and coding. When done accurately and efficiently, it can accelerate the billing cycle, reduce ...

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ingenix, a leading provider of health information, technology and consulting services, and A-Life Hospital, a wholly owned subsidiary of A-Life Medical, today ...

It’s a classic Catch-22. Hospital coding specialists must rely only on doctor’s notes to determine if a medical condition was present at the time a Medicare patient is admitted to the hospital. But it ...

The hospital said it miscoded 87 uninsured patients that never had COVID-19, resulting in more reimbursement from the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration. The sequencing of coding is ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced late last week that acute care hospitals will receive an inflation update in their payment rates of 2.1 percent in fiscal year 2010. Earlier ...