As The Wilshire Group reflects on coding industry trends, there is certainly a common theme with coding department goals for this year: continued integrative work between facility and professional coding.  

In a health care environment where everyone is looking for efficiencies to capitalize on, Wilshire finds Revenue Cycle opportunities that often go unrecognized. For example, it is common to see coders reworking accounts in workqueue’s (WQs) because build [...]

67, 66, 65, 64 days and counting…. We are officially on the FINAL countdown to ICD-10 implementation. Health systems, providers, payors, etc., are working diligently to review that “Master Task List” we all created, what seems to be, a decade ago by now. [...]