ICD-10 is coming, and it will affect virtually every department within a hospital or health system. A question many are asking is, “How exactly will it impact the revenue cycle?” At the 2012 AHIMA ...

Patients struggle to understand healthcare costs, but the process of setting costs and charging for services rendered can be complex enough to confound industry experts. The chargemaster is at the ...

The typical hospital chargemaster, also called a CDM, tracks 15,000 line items. Each item is assigned a code representing a different service, procedure or product used in providing care to patients.

Healthcare providers can’t leave a single dollar on the table. That’s the motivation behind many organizations’ decision to spurn traditional chargemaster consulting services in favor of automated ...