Medical Billing and Coders Professional Liability
Companies who regularly handle such sensitive information as patient medical records have a particular responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of the data. ...
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Case Study Examines the Role of HIM Professionals in Facility Closure
The Fall issue of Perspectives in Health Information Management, the online research journal of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), features the latest research on topics such as implications for radio frequency technology...
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E/M 101
E/M stands for evaluation and management. E/M coding is the process by which provider-patient encounters are translated into five digit CPT codes to facilitate billing.
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Three Things To Avoid During Patient Collections
Accounts receivable nightmares happen. Most practices have weathered periods of soaring bad debt or collections numbers at some time in their history-and every one of them will tell you how hard it is to get those numbers back under control.
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CMS relents, will reduce 2017 MIPS reporting burden
You can expect CMS to soften the impact of its MeritBased Incentive Payment System (MIPS) for 2017. There will be four options given to providers for complying with MIPS on Jan. 1, 2017, which is when performancemeasuring begins for 2019, the first M...
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How Consumer Demands are Changing Healthcare
One of the most profound shifts occurring in healthcare today is a new spotlight on consumers-their preferences, their opinions, and their experiences.
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