The dire need for Certified Professional Coders (CPC)
Medicine has transcended from being a profession that focuses solely on curing patients to multi-billion dollar commerce. Physicians and hospitals have been forced to amend t...
The Importance of Adhering to HCC Guidelines
The Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) was developed and implemented by The Centers for Medicate and Medicaid (CMS) in order to create a risk adjustment methodology to p...
Are you prepared for CCC coding in 2017?
Dealing with medical bills is one of the leading concerns of physicians and health care professionals. Attempting to deal with such complex and ever changing medical billing ...
Understanding CPT
CPT is short for Current Procedural Terminology, and is a set of medical codes that defines a slew of medical related procedures and services to physicians, health insurance ...
Understanding ICD-10 Coding
The latter end of 2015 saw a significant change in medical coding. The standard ICD-9 (International Classification of diseases, Ninth Division), which had been in use for ov...
Finding the Right Medical Billing Company in Georgia
Medical billing is a tedious and challenging job that needs special attention in order to ensure optimal competence. Although most doctors and hospital have an in house billi...
AHA Report on Increasing Access to Care in Rural Communities
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. As Harris peered into his infant baby’s crib, tears welled up in his eyes. For the first time since his daughter was born...
Basics of a Population Health Strategy
Broadly defined as the health outcome of specific groups of people, population health management is making significant strides due to the various integrated delivery systems ...
Benefits of Population Health Management
Although one of the often used terms in the healthcare industry; population health management is also one of the least understood. The industry uses the term to cover everyt...
Key differences between Population Health and Public Health
Population health and public health are amongst the most popular buzzwords in the healthcare delivery sector today. Although both the terms appear to sound and mean the same...
