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By Susan Chapman for For the Record Health care organizations are increasingly adopting revenue integrity (RI) programs, which, as defined by the National Association of Healthcare Revenue Integrity, are valuable to “prevent recurrence of issues that can cause revenue leakage…
By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News In his opening keynote Tuesday at the HIMSS Machine Learning & AI for Healthcare Digital Summit, Mayo Clinic CIO Cris Ross enumerated some of the many ways artificial intelligence has been crucial to…
By Katie Adams for Becker’s Hospital Review The pandemic has spurred innovation in the health IT space during 2020, as hospitals and health systems find new ways to optimize workflows, use data to improve care delivery and connect patients to…
by Christine Donnamiller, RN, ACDIS-Approved CDI Apprentice for ACDIS CDI Blog I know it’s not easy. I see you documenting early in the morning, afternoon, and late in the evening. Somewhere in the middle you are holding that patient’s heart…
By Monique Griffin for For the Record From sequencing to recognizing manifestations, coding for COVID-19 is no easy task. When the pandemic emerged, the World Health Organization (WHO), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review Healthcare has entered a period of rapid innovation spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving functions such as IT department collaboration taking on new virtual approaches and increased responsibilities among other divisions and executives.…
By Cohen Coberly for TechSpot In brief: Though global economies have begun to open up, the Covid-19 virus is still spreading throughout the world, infecting thousands of new people every day. To help curb the spread of the disease, MIT…
By Mallory Hackett for Healthcare Finance The average cost of hospital care for COVID-19 patients without insurance or who receive out-of-network care varies greatly by age – from $51,389 for patients between 21- and 40-years-old to $78,569 for patients between…
From Modern Healthcare BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The United States is approaching a record for the number of new daily coronavirus cases in the latest ominous sign about the disease’s grip on the nation, as states from Connecticut to Idaho reel under the surge.…
By Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review Nearly one-third of full-time billers and coders at physician practices make between $40,001 and $50,000 a year in direct monetary compensation, according to Physician’s Practice’s “2020 Staff Salary Survey.” The survey’s 295 respondents…