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Medical Coding 101: Your Essential Guide to Types, Importance & 2025 Trends
In today’s complex healthcare landscape, medical coding is the foundation of a healthcare organization’s financial health, ensuring accurate billing, proper reimbursement, and high-quality patient care. From translating clinical documentation into standardized codes to ensuring compliance and audit readiness, coding plays a pivotal role in revenue cycle management. This comprehensive guide offers healthcare providers with a…
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CDI in Physician Offices: The Time is Now
Clinical documentation improvement is the process of ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of patient documentation, which effectively tells a unique story. This story is conveyed through structured coded data. In the physician’s office, code assignment is completed by the physician. The advancement of electronic health records (EHRs) has allowed physicians the flexibility to perform these…
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Physician Documentation & Mid-Year Coding Check-In: What Healthcare Teams Need to Know in 2025
Physician Documentation &Mid-Year Coding Check-In:What Healthcare Teams Need to Know in 2025 Physician Documentation & Mid-Year Coding Check-In: What Healthcare Teams Need to Know in 2025 Explore key 2025 coding changes, documentation challenges, and how organizations can adapt for success in a value-based care world. 2025 Medical Coding Updates: Key Changes & Impacts Staying current…
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Why You Should Keep a Success Journal
Self-help author Robert Collier wrote, “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” Taking charge of your career means making a persuasive case for your promotability. Tracking your successes gives you information you can pull for performance reviews, to update accomplishments on our resume, and to prepare for interviews…
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You are Not Your Slide Deck: Rethinking Presentations
This is the year we’re rethinking almost everything about work, so it might be time to rethink how we define the term “presentation” as well. PowerPoint was invented in 1987 and acquired by Microsoft three months later. It’s been plaguing meetings ever since. So we’ve resigned ourselves to long, not-very-helpful slide decks longer than some…
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Don’t Make assumptions about generations
We all know the stereotypes by heart. The Gen Z “snowflakes” who grew up expecting participation trophies. The Boomers who have one foot out the door and think they know everything (except how to deal with new technology; they call in their grandkids for that.) By 2025, Millennials are projected to account for 75 percent…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day
On January 17, 2022, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday will mark the 27th anniversary of the national day of service. This day was established to honor the life and legacy of Dr. King and to encourage all Americans to volunteer to improve their communities. Americans celebrated the first official Martin Luther King Day, which…
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How to Take Constructive Criticism Well
Most of us cringe when we hear someone say, “Can I offer you some constructive criticism?” We’re pretty sure nothing good follows the offer. Criticism has become a word that feels loaded with negative connotations, implying disapproval of faults, although criticism means analysis in art. If you can manage your reaction to criticism, you’ll be…
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Black History Month: Celebrating Black Pioneers in Health and Wellness
“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.” —Carol Moseley-Braun, politician and lawyer Our nation started the tradition of Black History Month in February when Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, established Negro…