Quality is the primary factor that holds the key to satisfied customers in any kind of industry and it is all the more important in healthcare services. Quality assurance processes help prevent mistakes and avoid problems while delivering services. In the healthcare industry, quality assurance relates to the maintenance of high-quality healthcare by regularly monitoring […]
What Is Revenue Cycle Management In Healthcare Facilities?
Revenue cycle management (RCM) is the management of finances, a crucial process that keeps an organization going on a daily basis. Medical billing plays a major role in the efficient functioning of the RCM process and thus the healthcare facility. If facilities do not focus on their financials they would be floundering no matter how […]
Strange Medical Codes That You Need To Know
Medical coding is a fabulous career and it involves assigning codes to all the services and procedures performed by a healthcare provider on a patient. The medical codes aid in health-related studies and research. However, the main purpose of giving codes to the services offered is to standardize the processes and procedures across healthcare facilities […]
Qualities Medical Transcription Companies Look for in Candidates
Healthcare documentation companies offer exceptional services by providing accurate and timely medical transcription reports to the healthcare providers that form the basis of physicians’ decision making regarding patients’ diagnosis tests required, treatment, and medications. Companies offering such critical services need to be really efficient and for this, they require healthcare documentation specialists who are really […]
Happiness – A State of Being
Many people think that happiness is one of those things that elude as much as we try to attain it. But, that’s not true and we can all experience happiness with a few minor changes in our behaviour, surroundings, and relationships. Happiness doesn’t happen just like that and we need to put in our efforts […]
Pass on the Benefit of Avoiding Tests to Patients with Accurate EHRs
Several healthcare providers have made the switch from paper-based health charts to digital records that are stored in the form of electronic health records. There are several benefits to a healthcare facility in implementing the EHR system which can be passed on to the patients as well if the system is appropriately employed. Let us […]
Create an Efficient Revenue Cycle with Effective Denial Management
A healthcare facility’s health depends on its revenues from reimbursements and out-of-pocket payments from the patients. While payments from patients can be collected with a little ease with a few processes in place, reimbursements from insurance payers are not that easy and they become even more difficult in cases where the claims are denied. A […]
Some ICD-10-CM Clinical Coding Challenges to Look Out for in 2020
Medical coding is a critical process in the healthcare field that uses medical code sets that keep changing periodically. Those in the medical coding jobs need to update themselves with all the changes that happen from time to time and ensure that they don’t even miss a single detail. This is an absolute necessity in […]
Implementing EHRs is Beneficial to the Facilities
A medical chart is a key component in the maintenance of systematic documentation of a patient’s medical history, diagnosis, treatment and care provided. It includes all the significant clinical data and medical history comprising of a patient’s demographics, vital signs, diagnoses, medications, treatment, various health issues, allergies, immunization dates, radiology images, laboratory reports, progress notes, […]
Challenges in Healthcare Documentation
Healthcare documentation (medical transcription) is one of the most critical processes in the healthcare industry that provides the basis for physician follow-up, decision making of the physicians and the processes of medical coding and medical billing. The medical coding process assigns different codes to the services provided and procedures performed taking the transcription reports as […]