Healthcare News
Ongoing coding education has proven to be a necessity in terms of keeping up with the industry’s constantly-evolving learning curve, but how do you ensure your organization is receiving the proper coding education that it needs?
Why is HCC coding important for patient and providers & how the HCC coding specialist can contribute to benefiting patient quality scores, higher shared saving, and an improved patient experience.
A detailed overview of the 2020 Proposed Rule for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) CMS-1716-P, which was released April 23, 2019 and published in the Federal Register, May 3, 2019.
A brief overview of how ICD-10 coding can impact in various stages within the revenue cycle management process including key aspects in which ICD-10 coding can improve DNFB.
Find out why project management has emerged as one of the most prominent business skills sets desired while becoming increasingly important to facilities in helping to control costs, mitigate risk, and improve overall project outcomes.
A Q&A regarding compliance issues and the proper protocol for handling delayed entries in provider documentation and acceptable time frames.
This case study summary provides an analysis on the unique challenges a medical facility faces when merging with independent practices (I.E. the impact on overall medical coding quality, turnover rate, and productivity), and the solutions we have crafted to be implemented for maximum results.
With more and more companies looking beyond their own departments to outsource this task, it’s important to consider the key factors of choosing a coding audit vendor that is just the right fit.
Regardless of how good the average experience of a patient has been during their time at any given healthcare system, what often determines their general memories of their experience is the financial resolution that follows after. High costs and/or a difficult payment process can tarnish a patient’s perception and greatly affect their opinion on said healthcare system as a whole. One of our own team members experienced a similar situation in which she chose not to return to one of her specialist doctors because their outpatient coder mishandled her bill, resulting in her insurance not covering the charge and her bill sitting in revision. In today’s world, you can leave a review of your experience virtually anywhere where payment is exchanged. It is because of this that health systems need to prioritize reinforcing the structure of their back end and front end financial processes to make them look, feel, and behave more like online retail or personal banking environments.
YES attended the 2019 Quad-State Annual Meeting & Exhibit, which was held at the Hilton Beach Resort and Convention Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It was at this meeting that YES connected with HIM professionals spanning across the 4 neighboring component state associations of AHIMA (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama). Not only were we corporate sponsors and booth exhibitors at the event, but members of the YES executive team presented on three different occasions.