While people often conflate the two, medical coding and medical billing are separate roles and functions in a healthcare ...

The HCPCS system, however, underwent several changes before adoption by commercial payers, which action was eventually mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) in ...

A health insurance claim coding system, comprising: a network and a database in communication with the network to store patient data and medical practitioner data; a provider terminal utilized by the ...

Democratic state Sen. Dave Koehler reflects on data center regulations, the budget process, a bill regulating down coding, ...

After years of working to better understand how accurate coding affects the dental revenue cycle, I attended this year’s ADA Code Maintenance Committee meeting as an observer. What I found confirmed ...

Each Current Dental Terminology (CDT) code is a set of three written components for dental procedures that cover oral health and dentistry. The components are as follows: The procedural code is a five ...