A medical coder sued Mosaic Life Care Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo., May 25 for wrongful discharge, unlawful retaliation and age discrimination, according to the St. Louis Record. The medical ...

Here are four tips for hospital billers and coders to more accurately capture and document patient encounters, according to The Hospitalist. 1. Thoroughly capture the first visit. Hospital ...

The hospital said it miscoded 87 uninsured patients that never had COVID-19, resulting in more reimbursement from the HHS Health Resources and Services Administration. The sequencing of coding is ...

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 ...

Nigel Hawkes, freelance journalist investigates how the way that patients are allocated diagnostic codes by a hospital can have a big effect on a hospital's performance in this week's BMJ. Nigel ...

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 ...

In 1970, Drs. Wallace Reed and John Ford opened the nation’s first ambulatory surgery center in Phoenix — the culmination of years of clamoring by providers, public officials and patients for a ...

(HealthDay)—Inaccurate coding can introduce biases in studies based on administrative data, according to research published online May 16 in The BMJ. Linxin Li, and Peter M. Rothwell, M.D., Ph.D., ...

An analysis of American hospitals showed little evidence that recent changes in diagnostic coding patterns for patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF) have affected a key performance measure ...

Michigan Medicine reduced hospital readmission penalties in effort to improve patient outcomes and reduce costly hospital ...