Clinical coding is a process by which descriptions of diseases, injuries or procedures are assigned a numeric or alphanumeric designation. Coding provides a mechanism for standardizing the recording ...

On January 1, 2021, new evaluation and management (E&M) coding guidelines for clinical office visits go into effect across the US. These guidelines, which reflect the most significant change in E&M ...

Everything hospital executives need to know about the importance of clinical documentation improvement is summed up in one single fact: CDI fuels correct reimbursement and accurate quality reporting.

Validity of Natural Language Processing for Ascertainment of EGFR and ALK Test Results in SEER Cases of Stage IV Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer We identified all NCDB participants with International ...

Medical coders play a crucial role in the revenue cycle process, as they help ensure health systems, hospitals and physicians are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. Here are 14 things ...

Implantology is here to stay, as studies show that dental implants yield excellent long-term results, with 10-year success and survival rates above 95%. The reasons for implant failure are still being ...

NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HIMSS CONFERENCE -- Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: NUAN) today announced Clintegrity 360 ™, an integrated computer-assisted system for clinical documentation ...

ClinPlus's latest 3.3 release of their SAS-based data management and coding software promises greater data throughput and greater productivity for the management, analysis and coding of clinical trial ...

We created an annotated corpus of tumor morphology and topography mentions consisting of 1,101 documents. We combined it with the CANTEMIST corpus (Cancer Text Mining Shared Task). Specifically, we ...

Did you perform crown lengthening (D4249) or crown exposure (D4212) on a tooth? Often, there is confusion about which of these procedures is correct when it comes to coding treatment, and mixing them ...