5,500 New ICD-10 Codes from October 2016
The medical billing coding system is about to get larger and tougher – with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CM...
Preventing Medical Overbilling and Mis-billing
Medical billing is one area that most healthcare facilities find nerve wracking, time consuming, complicated and tricky. With all those rules to follow, codes that need ...
Ways To Prevent Medical Billing Fraud
Have you ever been a victim of medical billing fraud? Medical billing fraud, especially those related to insurance billing are far more common in practices than you would thi...
Do EHR Design Flaws Lead to Errors In The Emergency Room?
Information Technology and computers are supposed to make our work easier, faster and accurate. However, the transition to digitized record systems seems to be causing a...
Survey Reveals Top Population Health Management Challenges
Population Health Management using health IT is one of the biggest goals for healthcare providers, in the current healthcare landscape. A survey conducted by HIMSS Media...
Report: Inferior Healthcare Mobile Apps could cost hospitals upto $100 mil every year
One of the most frustrating aspects of mobile health applications offered by hospitals is the lack of required services that consumers want. Although, out of 100 of the ...
Outsourcing your Medical Billing Services
Do you remember why you started your medical facility? The desire to help and treat others of their ailments – wasn’t that the reason? And yet here you are, dabbling with bi...
A92.8: ICD-10 Code for ZIKA
The Zika Virus
While monitoring sylvatic yellow fever in rhesus monkeys in 1947, the researchers in Uganda also identified an emerging mosquito borne virus – Zika. In 1952, t...
Medical Billing And and Coding Specialization
Medical Billing
All medical billing and coding professionals use standardized classification systems to code the patient’s medical and care history. However, there are m...
Tips On Reducing Medical Claim Denials
The ever-changing healthcare scenario is making it difficult for clinicians to manage their finances. On one hand, the number of patients are increasing every day, while...
