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How Medicare Fraud Threatens American Healthcare

Medicare fraud drains billions each year from America’s vital health program, endangering care for seniors and the disabled. As schemes grow more sophisticated, regulators use analytics and oversight to fight back, but fraud persists—raising costs, threatening patient safety, and burdening providers.

From Paper to Pixels: Three Generations of Change from ICD-9 to ICD-11

Decades of healthcare relied on ICD-9, a concise coding system built for the paper era. Now, with ICD-11’s global adoption, medicine is entering a digital, data-driven age. ICD-11 enables richer, more precise health information, powering advanced analytics and real-time surveillance—transforming how disease is tracked, care is delivered, and policies are shaped.

From Cubicle to Couch: How Medical Coding Became the Hottest Remote Career

Medical coding, once confined to hospital back offices, has gone remote in the wake of the pandemic. Now, most coders work from home, enjoying greater flexibility and opportunity. This shift…

Audit Nation: Growing World of Medical Coding Reviews

Deep within the administrative machinery of American healthcare, a quiet but consequential process is reshaping the industry: the rise of the medical coding audit. What began as a tool to…

Inside the Billion-Dollar Business of Medical Coding

If the clinical exam room is the heart of American healthcare, the back office where codes are assigned to every diagnosis and procedure is surely the brain. Behind each insurance claim,…

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How Coding Impacts Health

How Medical Coding Became Public Health’s Secret Weapon

As the COVID-19 pandemic gripped the globe, the spotlight turned to heroic clinicians, overwhelmed ICUs, and the scientists racing to develop vaccines. Yet, in the quieter corners of…