The Department of Health and Human Services announced awards totaling $27.8 million to health center networks and large multi-site health centers to implement health IT. The [...]

For healthcare providers seeking to participate in the federal government’s “meaningful use” incentive program, the barrier of entry may be lowering. David Hunt, MD, chief medical [...]

Medicare expects its fee-for-service systems will be tested and fully operational on the X12 5010 standard by January 1, 2011. That’s bad news for health plans [...]

In the September print issue, Lou Ann Schraffenberger, MBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, FAHIMA, reviewed the ICD-9-CM diagnosis code changes for FY 2010. She offers an extended [...]

Strike when the ink is wet.  That is the motto of the clinical documentation improvement specialists (CDSs) at Shands Hospital, based in Jacksonville, FL. They routinely [...]

“No” is a common word heard by PPE coordinators. Getting busy HIM professionals to host an HIM student for a professional practice experience can be a [...]

The September 2009 issue focuses on clinical documentation improvement (CDI) and how MS-DRGs and RACs are giving organizations the motivation to start CDI programs. Other features [...]