A coding audit is critical to helping ensure ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) receive appropriate payment for services provided to patients. This process, which is a review of codes submitted to ...

With increased scrutiny in several areas of coding compliance and more attention being paid to proper coding of total joint replacement, audits among orthopedic surgeons may become more commonplace.

Medical coding audits are complex, time-consuming, and costly processes that historically have required significant investment of manual resources to complete, but, more recently, advances in ...

ASCs should incorporate an external audit into their compliance programs. Formal coding audit protocol should define the purpose of the audit, frequency of review and sample size. The difficult part ...

Annual analysis points to an urgent need to redefine revenue integrity as proactive protection, while strengthening coding integrity and denial prevention measures. WELLESLEY, MA / ACCESS Newswire / ...

“Whether you conduct coding quality audits on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis, one of the most important elements of a coding compliance program is the feedback that goes back to the coders, the ...