Hospitals are racing to meet a January 1 deadline to adjust to billing code changes that affect invasive cardiology (IC) and interventional radiology (IR) services, two lines of business that account ...
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 ...
A new study led by a University of Massachusetts Amherst health economist dispels the notion that hospitals' adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) is driving up health care spending by helping ...
CMS has identified massive incorrect use of place-of-service codes for Medicare Part B services performed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, according to a report in the RAC Monitor. In a ...
Ideally, says David Witt, CFO of CHRISTUS St John Hospital, billing errors should be resolved at the bedside, long before financial people get involved. But it is hard for clinical people to think in ...
Large private insurers have continued to call out purportedly overzealous coding and billing as a source of ballooning health care costs. In particular, some have blamed the use of AI tools for some ...
Rosenberg described how his brother-in-law died suddenly of a heart attack earlier this year. After helping his sister-in-law ...
A man in the US used an AI chatbot to negotiate a $195,000 hospital bill down to $33,000 following his brother-in-law's death ...
A man in the US used the Claude AI chatbot to slash a $195,000 hospital bill to $33,000 after his brother-in-law’s death. The ...
On Tuesday, the Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Institute started training for healthcare providers in rural areas. The training was offered as a specialized bootcamp called Coding and Billing ...