In the current healthcare practices, hospitals spend a lot of time and money on patient statements. For this purpose, most healthcare organizations hire full-time employees who are entirely responsible for managing patient statements. The responsibility includes mailing, printing, and managing the logistics of the medical bills of the patients. On the other hand, some outsource …
We can never forget those children we lost due to childhood cancer and the lack of medication and advocacy that they could have given to their parents in those serious times. This childhood cancer awareness month, let’s spread awareness and prevent those newly diagnosed children with cancer stages and educate them so the wave can …
Whether you are working while sitting all day long or riding all day, back pain is something that would be waiting for you lurking behind the dark. As soon as you lie down on your couch/bed, it hits you like a rock. According to a report, 65 million American adults experience an episode of back …
After reaching a certain point in your age, you think that you know everything about your skin and body. And then sebaceous hyperplasia comes in to negate your thoughts. Sebaceous hyperplasia is a skin condition that appears after a certain age when your skin starts producing more excessive oils than it needs. These oil glands …
Aducanumab is a prescription drug that is used to treat Alzheimer’s disease. It is also sold under the name Aduhelm and was approved by the FDA in June 2021. It is the first prescription drug that not only is effective in treating Alzheimer’s but also decreases the rate of progression of Alzheimer’s symptoms. But the …
Hierarchical condition category – HCC coding is a comprehensive model used for calculating the future cost of healthcare for patients. This model was designed and regulated in the year 2004 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). However, the popularity and relevance of the model have significantly increased in the past few years …
Laser cataract surgery is an upgraded surgery process that is performed through Femtosecond laser technology which results in accurate precisions to the procedure of traditional cataract surgery which was previously performed using hand-handled tools. It is also known as Refractive Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery (ReLACS) and is referred to as advanced cataract surgery. In laser cataract …
After a certain age, your medical physician may likely tell you to go through a colonoscopy. This may be the reason If you have ever been diagnosed with cancer symptoms, the test might be necessary to identify if there are any colon cancer symptoms. Not only this, the benefits of colonoscopy involve the determination of …
A risk adjustment factor score (RAF score) is the score that is assigned to every patient in a risk adjustment payment model. RAF score can be calculated by taking multiple factors into account which can be a combination of disease risk score and demographic risk score that are normally called Hierarchical Condition Category HCC. This …
When it is all about the financial health of your revenue management cycle and practice, clinical documentation might not be a compelling topic to care about. But when it comes to optimal patient care, it is the heart of practices for generating revenues from registered payers. However, clinical documentation does not limit itself just to …