Medical school curriculum is heavy in anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, and clinical rotations or clerkships. There is very little, if any, instruction on proper coding and billing for ...

Artificial intelligence startup Ambience Healthcare on Tuesday announced a new medical coding model that outperforms doctors by 27%. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Ambience uses AI to ...

A physician’s most valuable resource is time. Yet today’s reality is sobering: on average, doctors spend over three hours each day on documentation. Most concerning? Much of this labor happens during ...

Physicians at Mid-Atlantic Pain Institute in Newark, Del., have reached a higher calling, says Frank J.E. Falco, MD, a physiatrist and medical director of the five-physician practice. Rather than rely ...

Provider burnout is a persistent problem in healthcare, and it has only been made worse by the added pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. To address this, software and services company athenahealth has ...

Sicker Patients or Better Charting? One suggested but unproven explanation for higher E/M coding says that Medicare patients are sicker than they were in 2001, forcing physicians to work harder at ...

They can't discriminate against me.” Once he investigated the matter, Farrugia discovered that medical insurance could be asked to cover not just CT scans but a wide range of services regularly ...