Paul D. Jacobs ([email protected]), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland. There is widespread agreement that taxpayers pay more when Medicare beneficiaries are enrolled in ...

Dr. Peter Churgin, a physician and early pioneer in electronic medical records, examines the growing A.I. arms race between healthcare payers and providers, and why it threatens to deepen burnout, ...

Cleveland Clinic said it is using generative artificial intelligence to automate routine medical coding tasks while improving revenue cycle ...

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 ...

Clinical decision-making, hospital management, and patient care have all changed as a result of healthcare technology. Nurses have historically been thought of as providing bedside care, but they are ...

ICD-10, an international disease coding system, is mandated for adoption in the U.S. by Oct. 1, 2014, and will require health care organizations to switch from the soon-to-be outdated ICD-9. Srividya ...

Claims data, which form the foundation of risk adjustment in payment for health care services, may reflect efforts to capture more—or more severe—clinical conditions rather than true changes in health ...

By Bill Maly, Senior Vice President, Analytics, Payment Integrity   | Uncover the four major ways providers are leveraging AI ...

( NewsNation) — Health care costs are rising faster than overall inflation, and in the process, they’re putting a financial ...

Last year, Tim Chevalier received the first of many coverage denials from his insurance company for the hair removal procedure he needed as part of a phalloplasty, the creation of a penis.