Computer Assisted Coding

Sticky: AAPC’s 2014 Salary Survey: See How Your Salary Stacks Up

By Michelle A. Dick and Rachel Momeni for AAPC Employment rates and salaries reflect healthcare business professionals’ rising marketability. AAPC’s 2014 Salary Survey proves that it’s a good time to be working on the business side of healthcare. Employment opportunities continue to rise for members, especially for apprentices. More members are earning higher education degrees than we’ve ever seen.…

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Report: 61% of Struggling Hospital CFOs Expect to Be Fired by 2016

By Fred Pennic for HIT Consultant 61 percent of hospital chief financial officers (CFOs) and business managers in “struggling” hospitals expect to be fired by 2016 due to outdated revenue cycle management solutions, according to a recent Black Book report. The report reveals hospital CFOs could potentially lose their jobs because their outdated revenue cycle…

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ICD-10: Managing the Doubt

By Linda Reed, R.N. for Hospital & Health Networks Despite widespread doubt that ICD-10 actually will happen next October, hospital leaders can ill-afford to stand pat. The consequences of doing nothing are severe, says CIO Linda Reed, R.N. “The deadlines are not changing. … Let me repeat that, the deadlines ARE NOT changing.” Karen Trudel,…

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KLAS Releases New Mobile App!

Dolbey values your feedback. Your voice, as shared with KLAS, helps guide our efforts to continually improve the Speech Recognition and Computer-Assisted Coding technology we provide. For this reason, we strongly encourage you to continue contributing to as well as leveraging the analysis provided by KLAS. To make it easier for you to do this,…

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ICD-10: Why Should the CEO Care?

By Marty Fattig for Hospital & Health Networks The transition to ICD-10 may have been delayed a year, but that doesn’t mean hospital executives can tune out what’s happening in their organizations. It is up to the CEOs to make sure that their organizations have smooth transitions. Well, they put off ICD-10 implementation once again…

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100 healthcare statistics to know

By Shannon Barnet for Becker’s Hospital Review The term “healthcare” encompasses a wide variety of issues ranging from insurance coverage controversies and workforce compensation trends to prescription drug administration and health information technology. Being able to master all matters of healthcare would likely take an inordinate amount of time, which is why Becker’s Hospital Review…

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How to mitigate the revenue cycle impact of the ICD-10 delay

By Jen Bresnick for RevCycle Intelligence October 1, 2014 was supposed to be the beginning of the ICD-10 era in the United States, but once again the industry is facing a new implementation date after Congressional action in April. While the one-year delay does give some organizations a much-needed breathing space to ramp up testing,…

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ICD-10 queries: Where real time is likely to be lost

By Carl Natale, Editor, for ICD10Watch Are you worried that ICD-10’s granularity will take a hefty toll on productivity? Then you’re not alone. One of the major issues with ICD-10 implementation is the concern that the increased specificity will create more work for medical practices and damage productivity. To document that increased specificity, physicians are…

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Is Upcoding a Problem? Not Quite Say Researchers

By Gabriel Perna for healthcare-informatics.com Last December, the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) painted an ugly picture of fraudulent use of electronic health records (EHRs) by hospitals and healthcare provider settings. HHS OIG said that a good chunk of provider organizations they studied were not protecting patient data from potential misuse…

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