In today’s healthcare landscape, medical practices work hard to deliver excellent patient care while also ensuring smooth financial operations. But even the most well-run practices can fall into ...

A new AI approach to diagnostic coding boosts accuracy, reduces errors, and could even outperform human physicians.

Medical billing errors are a common problem that can be extremely costly for consumers, unless those errors are discovered and corrected before payment. But with America’s complex medical insurance ...

Errors on medical bills are a more significant problem than you might think. Experts say as many as 80% of medical bills in the U.S. contain errors, according to Derek Fitteron, CEO of Medical Cost ...

The medical claims cost reduction startup Bluespine Inc. believes it has hit upon a viable solution to the problem of overbilling after raising $7.2 million in seed funding from Team8. Bluespine says ...

Absent commercial health insurance companies fulfilling a recent promise to reform their prior authorization (PA) and ...

A Midtown-based health startup aiming to reduce medical coding errors and payment denials to hospitals and health care providers launched out of stealth with $3.1 million in funding on Thursday.

New research estimates that a single primary care physician could add $124,435 in preventative services to their practice's annual revenue if coding and billing practices were rectified. Physicians ...

Medical coding requires a deep understanding of medical terminology and procedures, as well as the ability to make judgment calls when necessary. Human coders are better equipped to handle these tasks ...

Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, an independent consultant specializing in hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center coding, billing, reimbursement and operations, discusses seven common coding ...