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How to Become a Healthcare Documentation Specialist?

Healthcare documentation specialists or medical transcriptionists create transcription reports from the dictated recordings given by the physicians. They ensure that the reports submitted by them to the healthcare providers are perfect in every aspect because healthcare documentation plays a key role in the quality care provided by healthcare providers. People interested in healthcare documentation jobs […]

Common Summer Diseases Medical Coders Should Know

From June, the summer season starts which brings with it various health conditions resulting from the outdoor activities and outdoor trips people plan to beat the heat. These health conditions and ailments hamper the enjoyment of summer holidays. Reports suggest that healthcare facilities encounter nearly double the cases in emergency departments in this season with […]

Easy Tips to Master Medical Terminology

One of the biggest hurdles for newbie healthcare documentation professionals is mastering medical terminology. Anyone who wants to make a career in the healthcare industry in the areas of medical transcription, medical coding, or medical billing has to learn medical terminology and human anatomy and master these so as to be accurate and flawless in […]

Understanding the Key Areas of Healthcare Accounts Receivables

The ultimate aim of a healthcare organization’s revenue cycle management department is to maintain a healthy revenue cycle that improves the bottom line of the organization. As a part of this, the goal of the accounts receivables management team is to reduce the collection period of the facility as much as possible to ensure sufficient […]

Ways to Take Control of Medical Accounts Receivables

One common thing that bothers healthcare providers is poor accounts receivables management and the unacceptable cash flows resulting thereby. Healthcare providers can focus on providing quality healthcare only when they have proper revenues and problems in accounts receivables result in loss of revenue. The revenue cycle management of a healthcare provider involves achieving the shortest […]

Guidelines Coders Should Follow to Pick Pain Codes

ICD-10-CM, the system that healthcare providers use to classify and code diagnoses and procedures of care provided, specifies certain guidelines to choose the codes assigned to pain management. Medical coding professionals should update their knowledge about the official guidelines for coding and reporting in order to assign codes with the highest levels of accuracy.  The […]