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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, […]

JAMA: Integrated Care Improves Patient Outcomes & Reduces Costs
A worldwide trend in healthcare reforms and new organizational arrangements, integrated care (also known as comprehensive care, transmural care, co-ordinated […]

Patients Top Complaint: Customer Service
Identifying keywords from about 35,000 Google+ reviews of physicians that were most commonly associated with the rating levels given, a […]

ICD-10 Flexibilities to end October 1st
After ICD-10 went live on October 1, 2015; CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) allowed a one year grace […]

False Claim Act And The Healthcare Industry
Starting August 1, 2016, the penalties under the False Claims Act (FCA) along with the Anti-Kickback Act, The Program Fraud […]

HIMSS: One-third Clinicians still use manual Claims Denial Management
Claim submission and denial management are critical components to the revenue cycle of healthcare facilities. As regulations are getting more […]

HHS ‘A Bill You Can Understand’ Challenge
Most patients and their families find it very difficult to understand their medical billing documents. Currently, there are no established […]

ICD-10-CM Code (M62.84) for Sarcopenia Announced
Effective October 01, 2016, the code M62.84 will be used by the healthcare community for sarcopenia, thus recognizing it as […]

Florida Hospital Gains $72.5 Million Courtesy its Clinical Documentation Improvement Program
Once an informal process that received significant attention at just a few hospitals; Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) is now the […]

E-Prescribing Of Controlled Substances Now Mandatory In Maine
Drug addiction – a problem that most governments across the world are fighting to control, has not only become a […]