Medical coding is the process under which hospitals translate crucial medical information related to each patient into simple codes for documenting medical records and for ease in medical billing and ...

Workforce shortages, regulatory complexities and economic challenges have put hospitals and health systems under immense pressure to improve operational efficiency, accelerate payments and reduce ...

The need for autonomous coding solutions is multi-faceted and increasing. This need stems mainly from a shortage of qualified coding resources, staggering numbers of patient charts to code, constantly ...

Nursing homes have forced Medicare to realign its spending on patients with higher medical complexity, including those with a primary diagnosis of congestive heart failure, Alzheimer’s disease and ...

The healthcare industry is no stranger to technological advancements, and artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a game-changer in multiple areas. From diagnosing medical conditions to ...

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The healthcare industry in Texas continues to expand. As the population ages, the need for medical services grows. Increasing medical services means higher demand for medical billers and coders who ...

Teaching medical coders advanced medical coding skills was the focus of workshops run by the World Bank and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Indonesia this year. Codes are ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...