The doctors’ association is blowing up the U.S.’ decades-old coding system for recording pregnancy services and starting fresh next year, bowing to calls from OB-GYNs and other maternity specialists.

Software development is increasingly automated. The existence of shortcuts, reference architectures, rapid application development environment design tools and configuration management accelerators ...

WASHINGTON -- If things are a bit tense in your doctor's office come Oct. 1, some behind-the-scenes red tape could be to blame. That's the day when the nation's physicians and hospitals must start ...

Healthcare organization CFOs are facing a perfect storm of challenges around medical coding. With few workers entering a field dominated by older Gen X-ers and Baby Boomers, there’s a growing gap in ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avant-garde Health, the leading provider of solutions for improving perioperative quality and profitability, is helping Nebraska Methodist Health System enhance the accuracy ...

Coding of physician office visits can be very confusing – and is ever-changing. Every year, regulations and guidelines change, and it is difficult for providers to keep up. Most groups have coding ...

As of 2023, nearly half of U.S. hospital and health systems have at least one partnership, affiliation, or ownership interest in ASCs. Reports from industry publications indicate ASCs are becoming ...

This article is the latest in the Health Affairs Forefront series, Provider Prices in the Commercial Sector, featuring analysis and discussion of physician, hospital, and other health care provider ...