Medicare Advantage plans and providers need to be aware of the recent increase in government enforcement of risk adjustment coding issues. In the past few years, the Office of the Inspector General ...

To facilitate full and accurate Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding, it is crucial that providers take a disciplined approach to documenting medical encounters in patient records. The AAPC ...

Invisible engines of the modern healthcare system, medical billing and coding are indispensable if efficient transmission of important data is to be carried-out. While the medical coder translates the ...

Medical billing errors are a costly problem for the healthcare industry. Research has estimated that up to 40% of claim statements passed between insurers and hospitals have errors, while up to 15% of ...

The recent report by Crowe illustrates that medical billing and coding outclass among the top healthcare revenue cycle risk areas for healthcare organizations in 2019. Given the scenario, it is ...