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Be Part of a Positive Change in Healthcare

By Colleen Gianatasio
In Billing
Jun 1st, 2021
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Account for social determinants of health in your patients to ensure quality care. The specificity of the ICD-10-CM code set enables us to paint a clearer clinical picture of our patient’s health status. Our healthcare systems have always kept a clos...
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CDI

Outpatient CDI: Next Step in Your Career Journey?

By Colleen Gianatasio
In Healthcare Business Monthly
Oct 1st, 2020
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Opportunity is knocking for medical coders who want to transition into a new role. What is CDI? Clinical documentation improvement, or clinical documentation integrity, in the outpatient setting is quite a hot topic today! While CDI has existed in t...
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Short on Experience? Soft Skills May Get You the Job

By Colleen Gianatasio
In career growth
Oct 9th, 2019
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Hiring managers consider more than just education and credentials. While browsing social media and attending local and national coding conferences, I frequently note aspiring coders expressing frustration in getting their first break into medical cod...
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MIPS

How Value-based Care Can Improve Everyone’s Outcome

By Colleen Gianatasio
In Healthcare Business Monthly
Mar 5th, 2019
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Achieve better clinical outcomes, higher rankings, accurate reimbursement, and improved patient health. If you work for a healthcare provider organization, you’ve probably heard of value-based care — perhaps, your organization is already in a value-ba...
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Documenting Opioid Dependence and Abuse

By Colleen Gianatasio
In Healthcare Business Monthly
Mar 1st, 2018
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New metrics and quality measures call for improved documentation to track this growing problem. Opioid dependence and overdose are at crisis levels. Healthcare professionals have a front row seat to this epidemic, and we have a responsibility to know ...
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