A reputable medical billing and coding company, Outsource Strategies International (OSI)’s article “How the COVID-19 Pandemic has Affected Mental Health” has been featured as the cover story of the BC Advantage Magazine, the highly acclaimed CEU-approved national...
Pressure ulcers/injuries are a common adverse event that medical coding companies help physicians report. The codes for pressure ulcers and non-pressure chronic ulcers are located in ICD-10 chapter...
This is an update on the December 11, 2017 blog "Most Physicians Not Prepared for Value-based Care Transition" The Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), which came into effect in January 2017...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the much anticipated release of ICD-11 on 18 June 2018. This preview will give physicians and medical coding companies time to adjust to the new...
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), tuberculosis (TB) is second biggest infectious killer of adults worldwide. In the US, more robust control programs have reduced the number of TB...
Pneumonitis is a general term that refers to inflammation of lung tissue. Also referred to as hypersensitivity pneumonitis, this disorder is caused when a person has an allergic reaction in their...
Healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) plays a key role in the smooth administration of hospitals and other medical settings. Data redundancies and errors that can occur from manual processes can...
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) is getting more important than ever and plays a key role in patient care as well as reimbursement for any specialty, including Orthopedics. Medical coding...
According to a report from Markets and Markets, the global revenue cycle management (RCM) market is predicted to reach USD 90.43 billion in 2022 from USD 45.59 billion in 2016, growing at a CAGR of...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved two new spinal cord stimulation systems: the Senza II Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS) System from medical device company Nevro Corporation...
According to the Revenue Cycle Survey from Advisory Board that involved healthcare executives from 90 organizations and data from nearly 300 organizations, hospitals wrote off as uncollectable 90%...