The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently published an ICD-10-CM index and tabular addenda with reporting criteria for new ICD...Read More »
A new report from CMS found that providers used Z codes to report social determinants of health (SDOH) for 467,136 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS)...Read More »
Home health agencies across the country are grappling with a significant change in how Medicare pays for services, reported HealthLeaders...Read More »
According to HCPro’s 2019 coding productivity survey, while coding productivity held steady, missing documentation and unanswered queries bog down...Read More »
Physicians spend an average of 16 minutes and 14 seconds per patient encounter using electronic health records (EHRs), according to a study...Read More »
UnitedHealthcare (UHC) announced that starting April 1, they will use a proprietary software program to evaluate all professional claims submitted...Read More »
According to a recent Black Book survey, eighty percent of healthcare leaders said their use of data analytics for decision-making and strategic...Read More »
A new study estimates that sepsis is at least partially responsible for roughly 11 million global deaths in 2017 out of 56 million total deaths....Read More »