Practical challenges for applying MISRA and AUTOSAR coding requirements. The importance of the right development and tooling approaches. The key ideas behind MISRA Compliance, where the same thought ...

When is the last time your hospital, health system or organization looked at codes and clinical documentation to ensure everything was compliant with law and best practices? If revenue cycle teams are ...

Noncompliant coding is a more significant risk to the revenue cycle than providers may realize, accounting for $36 billion in annual lost revenue, denials, and fines. In 2019 alone, the CMS and the ...

In August, Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services paid $65 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by admitting patients who only required outpatient care and engaging ...

BALTIMORE -- Electronic health records make it easier than ever to create detailed patient files even for long or complex encounters but the technology has a dark side: EHR upcoding. The Centers for ...

In September 2014, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published its audit of Tulare Regional Medical Center, an acute care hospital in California. In ...

Manually monitoring, reporting on and maintaining compliance with government cybersecurity mandates is highly inefficient, especially for IT professionals who oversee hundreds or thousands of systems.

Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...