Accurate clinical documentation is a key element in making a successful switch to ICD-10. Here are seven benefits of implementing a clinical documentation improvement program in physician practices, according to an AAPC report.
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Analyzing the impact that ICD-10 will have on all aspects of physician practice workflow is an important step in preparation, according to a Physicians Practice report.
Coordination and communication with trading partners, which include clearinghouses, billing services and healthcare payers, is an essential element of ICD-10 preparation, according to a Government Health IT report.
In a Medical Practice Insider report, Madelyn Kearns lays out three challenges that stand in the way of a smooth ICD-10 implementation process and discusses ways to overcome them.
Managed care contract negotiation is an ongoing process. Here are seven questions for healthcare providers to ask themselves when preparing to enter negotiations with a payer, according to a Medical Group Management Association report.
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In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius 111 members of the U.S. House of Representatives called for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to reform the Recovery Audit Contractor process, according to an AHANEws.com report.
Without explicit guidance, recent reports show newly insured patients may tend to continue to seek care where they have always found it — emergency departments. A blog post from MediGain offers the following suggestions for practices to encourage newly insured…
Billing is an essential part of an ambulatory surgery center's revenue cycle process, but it can be expensive. Here are four areas to focus on that can help reduce the overall cost of billing, according to a Healthcare Finance News…
ICD-10 expenses go beyond just the cost of staff training and new software, according to an ICD10Watch report. Here are 10 business and clinical process considerations healthcare providers should also factor into their ICD-10 budgets.
Providers seem to be more hesitant to learn ICD-10-PCS than ICD-10-CM, even though the procedural codes are more complex than the diagnosis codes and 20 times more complex than the ICD-9 procedural codes, according to an EHR Intelligence report.