After two years of following a doctor around the office as a medical assistant, Raina Diaz was ready for a change. "I wanted to be part of the back end of the medical field," says Diaz, 47, of St.

At the Becker’s 32nd Annual Meeting: The Business and Operations of ASCs, taking place October 29-31 in Chicago, ASC leaders, surgeons and healthcare executives will explore strategies to drive growth ...

Quality medical coders can provide an invaluable service to physician practices, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers by decreasing denials, speeding up the reimbursement process and ensuring ...

Medical coding is a healthcare-business process to transform medical record documents such as laboratory and radiologic results and physician notes into universal alphanumeric codes that represents ...

Teaching medical coders advanced medical coding skills was the focus of workshops run by the World Bank and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in Indonesia this year. Codes are ...