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What's in your EHR?

  • Why does my medical record not contain everything that happened to me during my stay?
  • Why does this version of my record not look like the previous version that you provided to my lawyer?
  • Why does the record you gave me last month look completely [...]
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Patient Access Goes to the Movies

Imagine you are going to the newest installment of the Star Wars franchise. You go online to check out when it's playing, but can't find any information on their website other than a number to call. You ring them up and finally after talking to what [...]

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To Simple Visit Code, or Not?

Do you ever wonder how you could decrease your coders' workloads? Have you heard other organizations talk about simple visit coding accounts? Or do you simply wish there was a way to automatically code basic visits?

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Houston Area Safety Net Hospital Celebrates 50 years

A great article about one of our customers, Harris Health System, and the great work they have been doing in the Houston community for 50 years!

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The (Never-Ending) Battle on Denials

Denials have always been an uphill battle. As soon as you think you have a handle on one facet of it, the payer throws another unexpected change at your organization. Regardless of how strong your reporting, staff, and approach is with denials, they [...]

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Revenue Integrity 101

“Revenue Integrity” within a healthcare system means many different things depending on who you ask, the size of the institution, and if the OIG (Office of Inspector General) has paid a visit or not.

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ICD-10 Readiness Checklist

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. [...]

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Code Integration

Most organizations produce 1,000s of claims a day with hopes they’re compliant and will ensure proper reimbursement. Within those UBs/837Is are claim lines, which are primarily comprised of charging and coding data. The process responsible for creating [...]

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Dane County Airport (MSN) hosts world's first The Wilshire Group ad

July 1, 2015 - Madison, WI. The first day of July saw a world's first at the Dane Country Regional Airport in Madison, Wisconsin. The first mass media advertisement for the The Wilshire Group debuted. We are extremely excited about our ad, located in all [...]

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Combination Code Support by CDI

As we continue our journey towards ICD-10 implementation on October 1, 2015, the use of combination codes brought up a discussion between myself and another CDS (Clinical Documentation Specialists). I had just read this article, and we were doing some [...]

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