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 ...

A physician’s most valuable resource is time. Yet today’s reality is sobering: on average, doctors spend over three hours each day on documentation. Most concerning? Much of this labor happens during ...

Artificial intelligence startup Ambience Healthcare on Tuesday announced a new medical coding model that outperforms doctors by 27%. Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Ambience ...

Provider burnout is a persistent problem in healthcare, and it has only been made worse by the added pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this, software and services company athenahealth has ...

Physicians at Mid-Atlantic Pain Institute in Newark, Del., have reached a higher calling, says Frank J.E. Falco, MD, a physiatrist and medical director of the five-physician practice. Rather than rely ...

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.

Coding of physician office visits can be very confusing – and is ever-changing. Every year, regulations and guidelines change, and it is difficult for providers to keep up. Most groups have coding ...

Expert Physician + Expert Coder + Expert Medical Auditor: Dr. L. Neal Freeman is a practicing physician and surgeon and is additionally certified as both a Coding Specialist-Physician-based and a ...

Medicare officials are calling on physicians to be more aware of the billing and coding inefficiencies that cost the healthcare industry billions annually, according to a viewpoint in the Journal of ...

Sicker Patients or Better Charting? One suggested but unproven explanation for higher E/M coding says that Medicare patients are sicker than they were in 2001, forcing physicians to work harder at ...

Artificial intelligence startup Ambience Healthcare on Tuesday announced a new medical coding model that outperforms doctors by 27%. Ambience uses AI to draft clinical notes in real-time as doctors ...