Why It’s Time to Bring HCC Coding In-House
Recent advances in generative AI have made it a lot easier and safer to bring HCC coding in-house, lowering costs, and strengthening audit readiness.
Recent advances in generative AI have made it a lot easier and safer to bring HCC coding in-house, lowering costs, and strengthening audit readiness.
A universal medical coder, applied consistently across care settings, offers a practical solution to the enduring challenge of data integrity.
In a landscape where complexity has long been the norm, the power of one lies not just in unification, but in intelligence and automation.
How can healthcare providers contend with a regulatory environment that has never been more fragmented? Here are three lessons on why privacy is your competitive advantage.
CMS and AHIP are raising the floor, but forward-thinking plans are aiming higher. They’re designing utilization management systems that are clinically sound, operationally efficient, and aligned with enterprise goals.
Without systemic redesign, these efforts risk reinforcing the same pain points that made prior authorization a flashpoint for payers and providers.
By prioritizing sustainability-minded and compliant waste management in the workplace, healthcare leaders can advance patient and employee well-being, as well as environmental and fiscally responsible programs.
Successful implementation makes all the difference between a seamless changeover and a poorly executed one that interferes with the delivery of patient care.
If the guidelines for data sharing are not adhered to by providers, then all the work that has gone into revising this regulation will have been for nothing. But the road to compliance doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Here are three essential steps for healthcare leaders in navigating the soon-to-be Part 2 landscape.
Running a behavioral health practice requires balancing patient volume and case diversity, while maintaining operations. Transparent practice policies are necessary for success and ensuring high-quality, consistent patient care.
Updated schema requirements are easy to mix up — here are a few simple solutions
Adding generative AI and other AI tools to coding and chart review practices streamlines a complex process and better positions plans for risk adjustment audits.
Healthcare is a highly regulated industry, and any use of AI within it is dealing with the most sensitive data. In order to ensure you’re not putting you, your company or patients at risk, consider an evaluation framework for any AI tool that considers these three things.
A culture of compliance means truly valuing an adherence to industry standards, rather than looking at SOPs as a series of boxes that need to be checked in order to claim that requirements have been met.
The NCQA proposed standards updates are just one part of a healthcare landscape undergoing rapid transformation, but the imperative for optimizing operational processes has never been clearer.
A good outsourced partner can work alongside in-house accountants and stay on top of the moving target of healthcare accounting regulations, addressing tax risks and identifying cost-saving opportunities.