New York, September 23, 2025. RapidClaims today announced the publication of a comprehensive guide titled The Definitive Guide to Autonomous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a Q&A, Joann Ferguson, the health system's VP of revenue cycle, explains how the technology saves time and money and improves revenue cycle and clinical processes. Among the many uses for AI ...

(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., ...

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 ...

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 ...