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Find Your Top-Tier Staff: Innovative Strategies for Recruitment and Retention in Healthcare Staffing
The healthcare industry faces a constant challenge: attracting and retaining qualified coding and auditing staff. We’ve compiled some innovative solutions to attract top-tier talent and foster a work environment that keeps them engaged and thriving.
Ever felt lost in the labyrinth of ICD-10-CM codes? You’re not alone. In this article, we’ll explore specific examples of commonly missed or miscoded ICD-10 diagnoses and provide clear explanations on how to leverage the Alphabetic Index for accurate and efficient coding.
Healthcare outsourcing services offer a lifeline to hospitals struggling with coding backlogs, coding quality issues, and other challenges disrupting their revenue cycle.
The 2025 ICD-10-PCS updates have been released with a comprehensive addendum outlining the updates for the coming fiscal year. With the addition of 371 new and the deletion of 61 codes, the FY 2025 code set includes 78,948 ICD-10-PCS codes.
Following an evaluation of feedback and input from various specialty societies, CMS made the decision to reverse its previous ruling and eliminate CPT code 76937. This change will be incorporated into the 2025 NCCI Policy Manual.
For aspiring medical coders, mastering medical terminology and anatomy for coding is the foundation for a successful career. Medical terminology assessments gauge whether their grasp of these fundamentals is solid enough to tackle the complexities of real-world coding.
Recent updates from CMS bring substantial changes to telehealth reimbursement policies, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of billing, coding, and Place of Service (POS) requirements for healthcare providers.
A pivotal addition has been made to ICD-10-PCS coding guidelines under Table 0DX – Transfer of Gastrointestinal System: Body part U – Omentum. This addition opens avenues for precise documentation and coding.
How do you shape the future of an accurate Inpatient, Outpatient, or Profee coder? With several best practices that have been thoroughly tested by a team of real-world coding and auditing experts who have 20+ years’ experience in HIM.
CMS introduced a significant update in 2024 to HCPCS add-on code G2211. Let’s delve deeper into the intricacies of G2211 and its implications for primary care practitioners.