As physician practices navigate increasingly challenging times, with reductions in reimbursement, increasing costs and a heightening regulatory environment, developing and deploying best business ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 made permanent the Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program to identify improper Medicare payments. Many hospitals and medical practices have found ...

Finding the team members to staff a physician coding educaiton prgram can be a challenge, according to Abeni Lee, director of physician revenue cycle at Grady Health System. In this episode of HL ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Primary care physicians lose about $40,000 of revenue each year because they provide preventive services that ...