Farai Chideya recently renewed the issue of data collection and medical privacy in her article “Medical Privacy Under Threat in the Age of Big Data,” for First Look Media’s The Intercept. Chideya’s article raised several issues that have hitherto not …
This week Anthem (until recently known as WellPoint), the second-largest health insurance company in the United States, announced it had reached a buyout deal with the nation’s fifth largest health insurance company Cigna. Once joined the new company will provide …
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 …
Approximately a year and a half ago, Medical Billing Coding World reported the Coming of the ICD-10. Having been delayed for two years since its original scheduled launch date, as of now all indications are that it will roll out …
While this year’s Code-a-Palooza didn’t feature live music and outhouses as far as the eye could see, it did involve plenty of professionals who were placed somewhere along the spectrum between Generation X and the Millennials. Code-a-Palooza is an annual …
Just over two months ago the newest medical billing cloud software designed for small businesses hit the market. Known as Kareo BillCo Edition, the software package is claimed by its namesake company to be the first of its kind in …
Last week the FBI announced it was investigating a hack attack on the federal government’s Office of Personnel Management. Anonymous government officials were already pointing their finger at China as the details emerged, accusing its government of espionage against the …