In a year of unprecedented disruption and uncertainty, coding productivity managed to hold steady, according to the results of HIM Briefings’ 2020 Coding Productivity Survey. Learn how facilities adapted and how yours compares.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) will be conducting a second round of audits to determine whether acute care hospitals are being inappropriately reimbursed for outpatient services provided to inpatients, according to a recent update to the OIG’s Work Plan.
This week’s Medicare updates include three advisory opinions, billing information for Most Favored Nation model drugs, the January 2021 OPPS update, and more!
Your facility’s information security officer has ultimate responsibility for information security policies implemented at your facility. However, everyone has an important role to play in keeping information secure by following policies and procedures.
This article details 2021 updates to CPT® codes for medicine services including several new codes for continuous electrocardiogram (ECG) recordings and auditory-evoked potentials (AEP), as well as American Medical Association (AMA)-approved CPT codes for COVID-19 immunizations.
