Health Information Manager: Five Essential Skills To Possess

Health Information Manager: Five Essential Skills To Possess : The record-keeping of patients is transitioning from traditional handwritten ways to digital formats. Health care providers are using the latest technologies to…

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7 Medical Office Software Must-Haves For New Practices

Did you know that the United States has over 6,000 hospitals? Unfortunately, not all of them can provide high-quality treatment due to the lack of equipment. If you’re running a…

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3 Coding Compliance Strategies to Improve Reimbursement, Quality

Medical coders are typically behind the scenes of patient care, analyzing records, selecting codes for billing, and managing patient data. But to Jannifer Owens, a revenue cycle expert with over…

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6 barriers to automating prior authorizations

Prior authorizations consume hours of physician time as they seek insurer approval for drugs and treatments. Health plans say prior auths improve the quality of care and manage healthcare spending,…

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Boost revenue by getting coding right

It’s every physician’s worst nightmare: Receive payment for services rendered, but then a payer identifies an aberrant pattern in claims data, audits the records, decides it has overpaid the practice,…

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Building a Better Electronic Health Record No Easy Task

Apocryphal story from residency: On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a complicated patient admitted overnight with chest pain, and after the first…

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Read more about the article What Are the Benefits of Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)?
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What Are the Benefits of Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI)?

As healthcare organizations continue to utilize data that is becoming increasingly complex, it is essential that the data is captured and documented properly. Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) helps ensure that…

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Senior Living Centers Find New Benefits In Adopting Electronic Records

Senior Housing Companies, which offers assisted living services and healthcare to individuals living in retirement communities, was dependent upon manual paper processing to manage its 17 senior living communities in…

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Texas Doctors Send Letter Slamming Blue Cross’ ER Billing Process

Some of the state’s most influential doctors’ groups are pressing the insurance commissioner to investigate a change that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas is making to its emergency…

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Enhancing Patient Care with Clinical Documentation Improvement

Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) ensures that health services are accurately documented and helps healthcare coders and physicians work toward improved patient care while also streamlining productivity. When meaningful clinical data…

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Physician Practices Disillusioned As They Don’t Maximize EHR Benefits

Nearly 90 percent of physician practices with six or fewer practitioners are not using optimization tools included in their electronic health record systems, according to findings in a new report…

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Food Security Screening: Addressing EHR, Coding Challenges

Over 20% of U.S. children live in a household without consistent access to food. To promote food security among all children and families, the Academy supports screening families using the…

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