Traditionally, health care solutions and applications have been somewhat behind the technology curve. But, now we’re seeing a high demand in the market for solutions that deliver more automation to […]

The latest ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) was held virtually Sept. 14-15. First on the agenda, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its final joint decision […]

Reducing denials is a top priority for every health care organization and revenue cycle department. The ultimate goal is to somehow create a process that eliminates the need to review […]

As Medicare Advantage (MA) organizations report chronic disease conditions using ICD-10-CM encounter data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for use in the hierarchical condition category (HCC) […]

Waiting in the line of cars at the Biloxi Coliseum for my COVID-19 vaccine, I felt a sense of relief to be wrapping up my second dose of Pfizer vaccine. […]

The first draft of this blog was an exhaustive (and exhausting) summary of the actual changes to the FY 2022 ICD-10-PCS posted recently on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]

Last year started off just like every other year. Who would have thought that, by the end of March, you wouldn’t be able to enter a hospital to get a […]

This time of year my allergies are in overdrive. They are even worse now that I have moved from Northern Illinois down to lower Alabama where spring is in full […]

I was reading an article the other day about a young man who developed severe biventricular heart failure after consuming a large quantity of an energy drink every day for […]

It’s hard to believe we are already four months into 2021. Spring is here, which means spring cleaning, yard work, planting flowers and second-quarter updates from the American Medical Association […]

We sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Division Vice President Garri Garrison to talk about some of the lasting effects from a tumultuous 2020 and how we’re helping to […]

Some of you may be aware that CMS implemented some add-on payments for COVID-19 high throughput testing effective January 1, 2021. The add-on payments are being implemented to support laboratories […]