Clinical decision-making, hospital management, and patient care have all changed as a result of healthcare technology. Nurses have historically been thought of as providing bedside care, but they are ...

Studies that use UK hospital coding data to examine 'weekend effects' for acute conditions, such as stroke, may be undermined by inaccurate coding, suggests new research.

Perhaps no process has as great an impact on a hospital's revenue cycle as procedure documentation and coding. When done accurately and efficiently, it can accelerate the billing cycle, reduce ...

SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M is furthering its commitment to hospital coding quality and efficiency with the introduction of 3M ™ Codefinder ™ Computer-Assisted Edition. The new ...

A medical coder sued Mosaic Life Care Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo., May 25 for wrongful discharge, unlawful retaliation and age discrimination, according to the St. Louis Record.

Nigel Hawkes, freelance journalist investigates how the way that patients are allocated diagnostic codes by a hospital can have a big effect on a hospital's performance in this week's BMJ.

Blending the process of medical coding between domestic and offshore resources may be your answer to cheaper, faster, better coding.

It’s a classic Catch-22. Hospital coding specialists must rely only on doctor’s notes to determine if a medical condition was present at the time a Medicare patient is admitted to the hospital ...