A coding audit is critical to helping ensure ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) receive appropriate payment for services provided to patients. This process, which is a review of codes submitted to ...

Medical coding audits are complex, time-consuming, and costly processes that historically have required significant investment of manual resources to complete, but, more recently, advances in ...

Too little attention is paid to documentation, coding, and billing in many medical practices. For patients, documentation simply means that your doctor is providing an account of your visit in your ...

Coding experts agree that ASCs should conduct regular audits of their coding processes to ensure the ASC is not upcoding, a possible fraud issue, or downcoding, leading to a loss of owed reimbursement ...

Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...

Coding audits can help healthcare systems pinpoint mistakes and ultimately streamline processes and enhance coding staff expertise, ICD10Watch reports. Outlining a post-audit action plan can push ...

Compliance Auditor Provides Health Insurers Much-needed Insight into Risk Adjustment Coding, Ensuring Accurate Payments and Reducing Audit Risk San Mateo, Calif. – July 6, 2017 – Apixio Inc., the data ...

Fortis Medical Billing is our recommended provider for medical billing audits. Nowadays, performing coding audits has become a necessity for medical establishments. These organizations are often ...

The solution was recently introduced at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 20th annual Compliance Institute. According to a news release, iCode Assurance includes tools such as built-in workflow ...