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Tips to Improve Your Coding Accuracy

In the world of medical billing and coding, accuracy is everything. The changes that are currently taking place and set to take place in the healthcare industry are massive overhauls of the previous system and thus, producing a high level of accuracy will be more...

Adjustments and Risks of ICD-10 Codes

Currently, billing in the United States health care system is completely based off of the ICD-9-CM (International Classification of Diseases, 9th edition, Clinical Modification) code set. When treating and diagnosing patients, health care providers make notes on the...

Understanding HCC Coding

In the world of health and medicine, doctors and health plans have always focused on helping patients to the best of their abilities. One very important factor for ensuring excellent patient care is disease prevention and this is why the original set of International...

Making The Switch to ICD-10

In the world of health and medicine doctors treat patients for all kinds of different illnesses and injuries daily. Doctors see many different patients with many different health needs and this makes documenting patient treatment and interactions quite a difficult...

Working as an HCC Coder

As the baby boomer era continues to retire and grow into old age, the healthcare industry is experiencing significant growth to try to keep up with demand nationwide. Insurance companies, healthcare facilities, and government agencies all continue to be in need of...

Home-Based HCC Coding: FAQs

As the system for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements has changed significantly in recent times due to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, many healthcare providers no longer know how to appropriately code to meet the requirements of the new system. Rather...