In the high-stakes world of healthcare finance, where razor-thin margins and rising regulatory scrutiny are the norm, medical coding audits have become essential for maintaining revenue integrity, ensuring medical coding compliance, and supporting long-term sustainability. While many providers focus on coding compliance at a surface level, a well-executed medical coding audit dives deeper – uncovering hidden revenue leaks, identifying systemic issues, and paving the way
All the change in healthcare over the recent years has unfortunately meant new opportunities for abuses of medical billing. This kind of fraud and misuse puts providers at risk financially and ultimately jeopardizes the quality of care you can provide in the long term. Many providers who have realized this understand that now is a good time to consider investing in medical coding audits. If you begin the process now,
Healthcare providers across the board should be ready to expect more medical coding audits.
What’s coming down the pipeline shouldn’t catch anyone by surprise.
Next year promises interesting changes for the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule — many of which will help medical billers and medical coders adapt to a world that has heavily shifted to telehealth and that is still responding to a pandemic.
