A coding audit is critical to helping ensure ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) receive appropriate payment for services provided to patients. This process, which is a review of codes submitted to ...

Coding experts agree that ASCs should conduct regular audits of their coding processes to ensure the ASC is not upcoding, a possible fraud issue, or downcoding, leading to a loss of owed reimbursement ...

Medical coding audits are complex, time-consuming, and costly processes that historically have required significant investment of manual resources to complete, but, more recently, advances in ...

Fortis Medical Billing is our recommended provider for medical billing audits. Nowadays, performing coding audits has become a necessity for medical establishments. These organizations are often ...

Streamline Health to roll out coding audit solution at HIMSS Atlanta-based Streamline Health Solutions, a provider of technology-enabled services and analytics supporting revenue cycle functions for ...

Coding quality metrics vary by stakeholder group The C-suite focuses on metrics related to the bottom line, such as how coding audits impact revenue. “Sometimes audits are very beneficial from a ...

Too little attention is paid to documentation, coding, and billing in many medical practices. For patients, documentation simply means that your doctor is providing an account of your visit in your ...

PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C., Jan. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Health Information Associates (HIA), celebrating their 30th year as a leading provider of quality coding audits and coding support services, is ...

Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...