It is common knowledge that Clinical Documentation Improvement and HIM coding are integral to healthcare revenue integrity and accurate classification of the severity of illness of a given patient population.
Many providers, however, fail to realize the powerful impact of CDI and HIM on...Read More »
The American Medical Association (AMA) recently released the 2019 CPT Manual with 335 code changes, primarily adding care coordination services, central nervous system assessments, skin biopsies, and fine needle aspirations.Read More »
Payers rely heavily on the use of data and data analytics to manage their risk. Follow these tips for using payer guidelines to understand what they’re looking for and how to improve documentation.Read More »
Ensuring that documentation is complete and code assignment is accurate is challenging enough—but how do you convince physicians of the value of accurate documentation and coding when the services might not be covered by the payer?Read More »
