In fact before concurrent coding, reviews took over three months to complete, thereby delaying rebills and consequently reimbursements. Another important finding is that the recodes requiring ...

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 ...

With the ICD-10 transition now behind them, leaders at Mission Health System in Asheville, NC, have their sights set on the future of clinical documentation. Western North Carolina's only ...

Diagnosis sequencing is key to improving hospital ratings and rankings by industry groups like U.S. News & World Report, Leapfrog Group and Vizient. Manual processes for identifying high value cases, ...