EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ingenix, a leading provider of health information, technology and consulting services, and A-Life Hospital, a wholly owned subsidiary of A-Life Medical, today ...

When is the last time your hospital, health system or organization looked at codes and clinical documentation to ensure everything was compliant with law and best practices? If revenue cycle teams are ...

Karen Bowden, senior vice president of consulting services at Craneware InSight, points to five coding errors or other actions that are most likely to draw RAC attention in the hospital setting. 1.

Perhaps no process has as great an impact on a hospital’s revenue cycle as procedure documentation and coding. When done accurately and efficiently, it can accelerate the billing cycle, reduce ...

Sure, Medicare’s maze of billing and coding requirements is difficult to understand. And sometimes your software vendor doesn’t quite keep up with all the twists and turns. But those excuses won’t ...

Advanced technology will help Gwinnett manage its increased volume of medical claims, reduce administrative costs and prepare for ICD-10 LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Gwinnett Health System ...

It’s a classic Catch-22. Hospital coding specialists must rely only on doctor’s notes to determine if a medical condition was present at the time a Medicare patient is admitted to the hospital. But it ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced late last week that acute care hospitals will receive an inflation update in their payment rates of 2.1 percent in fiscal year 2010. Earlier ...