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Category Archives: ICD coding
Please Help, My Home Health Coder Just Quit!
Home health agencies rely on highly trained staff to keep operations rolling and to serve clients with quality care equaling a high retention rate and a healthy cash flow. However, cash flow depends on more than just a source—it requires a...
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8 Sure-Fire Ways To Maximize Your Coding ROI
After the advent of ICD-10, many home health and hospice organizations discovered outsourcing as the most efficient and economical coding option. To ensure your coding ROI (return on investment) is fully maximized, there are certain practices...
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12 Reasons Outsourcing is Better Than In-House Coding
Every home health agency must make the choice between staffing their medical coders in-house or outsourcing their coding to a 3rd party provider. Often, there is a natural tendency to do everything we possibly can ourselves.The underlying...
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Finding Support For ICD-10 Changes And Challenges
With the October 1st ICD-10 implementation deadline behind us, the time to prepare is past, but getting help optimizing the use of this new code is ever present. Many leaders of homecare agencies have discovered, during the first weeks of...
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10 Things Competitors Can Teach You About ICD-10
Observing how your competition is handling the transition to ICD-10 can be both motivational and instructional. If your competitors are better prepared for the new code than your organization, wisely step up your efforts now and learn whatever...
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Holiday Season
This holiday season, you may be looking toward the festive celebrations, the joyful atmosphere, the giving and receiving of gifts, the wintry landscape, and special times spent with family and friends. ICD-10 most likely is way in the back of...
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