Electronic health records security issues can pose problems for data security, patient safety and for regulatory compliance. There is a wide range of security issues that healthcare IT departments, hospitals, urgent care facilities, coders, auditors, management and other personnel face on a daily basis. Continue reading
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Medical Coder’s In Chicago
In Chicago as elsewhere, a medical coder’s salary is commensurate with training, skill, performance and certifications. Professional Dynamic Network provides skilled medical coding for healthcare providers, clinics, hospitals and private practices nationally from our remote coding labs in Chicago. With our focus on providing accurate coding services, we hire certified coders for our remote coding labs. Continue reading
Essential Medical Coding Services from Certified Medical Coders
Does your healthcare facility or organization require additional medical coding services; help with your ICD-10 conversion; or just to assist with medical records backlogs and transcription tasks? Continue reading
Understanding Outpatient Coding and Reporting
There are a great number of opportunities in the Health Information Management are that can save your practice or hospital valuable resources. Outsourcing your inpatient and outpatient medical coding are just 2 instances that streamline your facility. But what is medical coding? What is the difference between Inpatient and Outpatient coding? If the terms sound a little futuristic for you, good! Because in the Health Information Management field, the future is here! Continue reading
The CMS RAC Audit Process
Certainly by now you are familiar with the CMS RAC program. How familiar depends on whether or not you have had the good fortune to go through this process. Regardless if you’ve been audited or not, you should know a little about the process for your own protection as a provider of Medicare or Medicaid fee-for-service patients. Continue reading
Debunking The Myths Of CMS RAC Program
The CMS RAC program was designed to correct billing errors mainly caused by medical coding errors, not to prevent healthcare providers from getting what’s due to them. The Medicare and Medicaid systems are fraught with fraud, waste and abuse in addition to honest medical and billing coding errors. Often times these errors actually cost the provider money, which is identified and recovered through the RAC program. Continue reading
From Traditional Health Medical Records Management To Electronic Health Records Management
A valuable part of your health records management is your medical coding process. This is the backbone of your healthcare business. It is after all how you get your billing done. Although medical coding specialists and health information technicians do not provide direct patient care, they work regularly with physicians and nurses to clarify diagnoses or to get additional information to make sure that records are complete and accurate. Continue reading
Changing The CPT Outpatient Coding Guidelines
Do you as a physician or healthcare provider actually have time to manage the medical coding portion of your practice or facility? CPT codes are always changing and you medical coders MUST keep up with these changes, either on your time or their own. Do you know if they are?
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New Standards Require Medical Coding Consulting Services
With an aging population, specifically “baby boomers,” changes in industry coding standards, the move to national Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) standards, and the need for many healthcare facilities, urgent care centers, hospitals, clinics and even private practices to “outsource” medical records coding and insurance billing, may be the way you more efficiently manage your health information systems. Continue reading