A new solution from AKASA promises to fully code inpatient cases with no human intervention as the company continues to apply advanced AI to the mid-cycle.

Medical billing and coding systems ensure that health providers get paid for their services. Learn the steps in medical ...

It's often said that "no job is finished until the paperwork is done." That's certainly the case in medical offices, where every test and procedure must be translated into a specialized code before it ...

Medical coders might not decipher top-secret government codes, but their skills are critical to insurance companies, hospitals and health-care organizations. When a patient receives care from a ...

After two years of following a doctor around the office as a medical assistant, Raina Diaz was ready for a change. "I wanted to be part of the back end of the medical field," says Diaz, 47, of St.

Autonomous coding, AI-driven clinical analysis and pre-bill intelligence are creating new categories across provider ...

Dealing with emergencies is nothing new to the heath care industry, and while not life threatening, a lack of skilled medical coders threatens to disrupt one of the critical elements a hospital needs ...

The coding of medical diagnosis and treatment has always been a challenging issue. Translating a patient’s complex symptoms, and a clinician’s efforts to address them, into a clear and unambiguous ...

Stuart Robinson began working at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust in a temporary role after university, but has since made the move into a career within clinical coding. We sat down with ...

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 ...