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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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Keeping AI Applications Honest
Caution! This content was not written by AI, an actual human being wrote this. How do we ensure that AI is set up appropriately and behaving responsibly in our healthcare organizations? Typically, systems, devices, and applications send data to logs; traditionally, that data is accumulated and reported monthly. Errors are corrected, abuses addressed, and problems fixed, but…
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Automating Risk Management and Cybersecurity Compliance in Healthcare
For the last couple of newsletters, I have been writing from a fairly general level as introductions to this topic. In this newsletter, we attempt to get down to some technical details and examples of why automating your risk management and compliance is so important. We’ll even note how we are seeing AI being used…
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Rigorous Change Management and Vendor Management in Healthcare
In light of recent outages, let’s go back to basics and reexamine best practices for change management and vendor management in healthcare. Healthcare Change Management Discussion An appropriate change management program is one of the pillars of maintaining a robust, resilient, and secure IT environment in healthcare. This program should be governed by a team of…
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Understanding Cyber Risk Quantification: A Game Changer for Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations
Cybersecurity is obviously a critical concern for hospitals and healthcare organizations. Cybersecurity and HIPAA compliance are typically managed with a biannual or yearly audit, which then generates items to be remediated to bring the organization into compliance. As cyber threats become more sophisticated, traditional methods of assessing and managing these risks are proving inadequate. This is evident in the…
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Adopting AI in Healthcare: Who Needs to be Involved
The decision to adopt AI for use in clinical settings and enterprise business systems in healthcare should involve a wide range of constituents. A variety of departments and functions, from the board of directors to all the way down to line workers, will need to give input, author policies, write procedures, and be involved in…
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Guy Cuddihee Scholarship 2024 Recipients
CSI Companies is proud to announce the recipients of the Guy Cuddihee Memorial Scholarship, Aria Brown and Ian Rasch CSI Companies is committed to giving back and grants an annual college scholarship to a local high school student in memory of well-known local philanthropist Guy Cuddihee. Each year, the Guy Cuddihee Memorial Scholarship identifies and awards…