Knowledge You Need – Medical coding blog
Up to date information, guidance, insights, and strategies so your HIM and revenue cycle business can thrive.
Four Red Flags that Your Health System Might Need an Outpatient CDI Program
Not sure if your organization needs an outpatient CDI program? Here are four red flags identified by the coding and CDI experts at KIWI-TEK.
Four Red Flags that Your Health System Might Need an Outpatient CDI Program
Not sure if your organization needs an outpatient CDI program? Here are four red flags identified by the coding and CDI experts at KIWI-TEK.
Is the Remote HIM Workforce Here to Stay?
According to a survey conducted by Slack, newly remote knowledge workers1 are struggling to adapt to home-based offices and virtual collaboration realities during COVID-19’s mass office exodus. Slower paced communication across teams often evolves into bigger...
COVID-19 Challenges, Implications and New Trends for HIM
Healthcare organizations have been forced to stall many process improvement projects over the years due to lack of budget and resources. Enter the coronavirus. The realization quickly set in for HIM and revenue cycle departments that process improvements were the only...
Our New Normal Gives HIM a Chance to Shine
With a positive change in mindset, HIM and coding teams have an opportunity to not only recover, but prosper and be better than ever! While HIM professionals are dealing with current challenges including reduced patient volume, layoffs and furloughs and working from...
Our New Normal Is Around the Corner
As the U.S. begins its recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, evidence strongly suggests that there will never be a return to “normal” for healthcare providers and HIM professionals, but rather a return to a “new normal” that we all should prepare to embrace. The crisis...
Reopening American Healthcare Is Happening—What You Need to Know
With the White House plan for Opening America Up Again, released April 17, 2020, states across the country are aiming to return to pre-pandemic healthcare, including elective surgeries and routine medical visits. On April 19, 2020 the Centers for Medicare &...
KIWI-TEK Excels in Privacy and Security Risk Assessment
KIWI-TEK has attested that they have put into operation a complete set of HIPAA-based privacy and security policies, forms, and a privacy and security risk analysis. As part of our ongoing effort to be the best coding service in the industry, KIWI-TEK is continually...
CFO Zone Puts Coding in the Spotlight
Revenue cycle executive involvement is an essential ingredient to recognize the full value of any outsourced coding partnership. For the 70 percent [i]of hospitals, health systems and physician groups that plan to extend outsourced medical record coding services into...
Denial Prevention-How to Avoid Common Culprits
In this month’s Journal of AHIMA, KIWI-TEK’s article “Denial Prevention: Understanding Common Culprits and How to Avoid Them” explores reasons for coding denials and offers practices to promote optimal reimbursement. As our company’s vice president of coding...
Interventional Radiology Coding Specialization – Why It Matters?
In recent years, we’ve seen a growing demand for interventional radiology (IVR) coding—one of the most difficult and complex areas of coding. Healthcare organizations increasingly need professional coders who have the level of IVR expertise, training and experience...
KIWI-TEK, a medical coding company is your coding authority – we cover all medical coding needs. Find out more about our medical coding services or contact us for more information.
Knowledge You Need
Easy access to the information you need
Guaranteed Results
We promise to meet or lower your current coding costs while outperforming target revenue cycle benchmarks.