Medical billing and coding systems ensure that health providers get paid for their services. Learn the steps in medical ...

Clerical documentation burdens for physicians expanded during the past decade in part due to increased regulatory requirements and the corresponding proliferation of EHRs — one 2017 study found ...

The changes to end-of-life skin wound classification in the most recent Minimum Data Set update are ultimately a positive for long-term care, but regulatory ambiguity and potential legal concerns ...

Along with a new year, January 1 will usher in watershed changes to the American Medical Association’s (AMA) “Current Procedure Terminology (CPT®) Evaluation and Management (E/M) Office or Other ...

To facilitate full and accurate Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding, it is crucial that providers take a disciplined approach to documenting medical encounters in patient records. The AAPC ...