The Podcast by KevinMD Partner with me on the KevinMD platform. With over three million monthly readers and half a million social media followers, I give you direct access to the doctors and patients who matter most. Whether you need…
The industry is looking down the barrel of what the insurers say is a billion-dollar question: Are AI-backed billing tools driving up healthcare costs? Autonomous medical coding, AI-assisted documentation and ambient listening tools for notetaking all promise to reduce administrative…
A new federal pilot program will allow healthcare companies, including home-based care providers, to self-report and rectify conduct, such as compliance issues. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Division announced the…
A coding or documentation error that reaches the payer can come back as a denial, and a denied claim has to be corrected or appealed before payment can be recovered. In outsourced revenue cycle management, a physician-led billing team reads…
Healthcare software colleagues of mine often describe a recurring discussion they have with their outsourced development teams. They recount that when they try to explain the difference between a billing diagnosis and a clinical diagnosis, the engineers on the other…
Deepak Gupta is a seasoned technical writer and tech journalist with over a decade of experience tracking the evolution of business technology, software engineering, and the gaming industry. Over the past 10 years, he has specialized in stripping away confusing jargon…
Medicaid is the central payer financing homecare, covering approximately 40% of all home health expenditures and the vast majority of homecare spending for elderly and disabled Americans when broader long-term services and supports are included. When the government deploys AI to…
The AHA has released a fact sheet explaining how artificial intelligence tools help alleviate administrative burden for providers, particularly in areas such as billing, coding and documentation. The AHA explains how AI tools help reduce documentation time, improve coding accuracy,…
An eye screening system that uses artificial intelligence helped more people with diabetes reach specialist care in Tanzania, a clinical trial found. Getting results immediately appeared to make an important difference compared with waiting for a later phone call. The…
Insurance Business Health plans have 10 weeks to meet the prior auth API deadline, and the burden hasn’t eased yet The partnership is designed for a specific regulatory moment. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the Interoperability and…
Startups and Innovation in Health Insurance: the news, the names and what changed.
An article joins this feed when it matches these terms. Each one is also a search of its own.