Grady Health System's director of physician revenue cycle shares a framework for creating effective physician coding education programs that improve compliance and performance against quality metrics.

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 ...

As recovery audit contractors set their sites on medical necessity of inpatient stays, hospitals enter a hazy area of compliance. RAC consultants say Medicare definitions of what constitutes inpatient ...

The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...