Implemented in 1974, the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) was originally an initiative by the predecessor of today’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The creation of the UHDDS is indirectly …
While this term might throw new medical billing and coding professionals, understanding diagnosis-related groups – DRGs – is not complicated. Essentially a DRG is just a way of categorizing different medical codes. Billing and coding professionals deal with potentially tens …
Founded by five businessmen in Minnesota in 1902, today 3M employs around 88,000 and last year generated $30 billion. The company initially started out in mineral mining – Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing – and then diversified into mining products. After …
The following is a state-by-state report about the different job titles and job qualification requirements that are common in the medical billing and coding field throughout the country. The five states covered here employ the largest amounts of medical billing …