Even small errors can lead to denials, payment delays, and possibly non-payments for services rendered. Follow these four recommendations to help improve the accuracy of your physicians’ documentation ...

Too little attention is paid to documentation, coding, and billing in many medical practices. For patients, documentation simply means that your doctor is providing an account of your visit in your ...

It’s an open secret within the physician community but may not be widely known: Doctors spend more time documenting and updating a patient’s electronic health record than we spend examining and ...

Nate Seaman, associate vice president at MedeAnalytics: Your physician documentation needs to be specific to make sure you are paid for the complexity of care you provide. Unlike some analytics ...

Steve Claypool, MD, is vice president of clinical development and informatics, and Allison Errickson, CPC-H, is director of coding compliance and content, Clinical Solutions Division, for ProVation ...

Implementation of Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs in the hospital setting has grown exponentially over the last few years as a key financial strategy to address and meet the tough economic ...

An analysis of nationally representative survey data from 2019 and 2021 shows that office-based physicians participating in accountable care organizations (ACOs) reported greater documentation burden ...

It's well documented that physicians are frustrated with the design of electronic health records (EHR) and the time they spend inputting information into the systems. One major factor contributing to ...

The Medical Documentation Course is an online self-paced, in-depth program that focuses on patient evaluation, documentation of the encounter and its billing. Instruction is presented through ...

Emergency department residents do what all physicians do: They document patient encounters into an electronic health record. But the information they're entering may not be all that accurate. A study ...

M*Modal, a vendor of clinical documentation and speech understanding technologies, is collaborating with Indiana physician group practice Community Health Network with the aim of transforming the ...