Author Archives: Medical Coding Analytics

About Medical Coding Analytics

Founded by a physician and technologist with over 20 years of medical practice experience. Summarizing critical health information from the clinical record since 2014. "Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family." -- Kofi Annan

Acute vs. Chronic HCC RAF

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Summary Information from the Clinical Record

HCC_Summary <- function( pdftext ) LabMatch <- function( labstring, pdftext, … ) ReportMatch = function( pdftext, reportdelims, … )

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Extracting Patient Health Summary Information from the Continuity of Care Document (CCD)

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HCC Bucket Analytics by Risk Adjusting ICD10 codes from Clinical Text

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HCC bucket analytics on HIE data

REPORT: Number of terms searched 105 Bucket Term Count Diabetes Diabetes 23 CHF ECHO 2 PVD ABI 3 PVD Vascular 30 PVD PAD 1 PVD Atherosclerosis 2 PVD Ulcers 8 PVD calcification 3 MDD Depression 26 Substance Dependence Alcohol 44 … Continue reading

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Medicare Payments Profile for a Wound Care Practice

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Which States Are Friendliest to Independent Practice?

In choosing a state in which to set up a practice, physicians should study tax and regulatory policy, writes third-year family medicine resident Philip Eskew, D.O., J.D., M.B.A. The winter issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons features … Continue reading

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Summary of Medicare Payments to Ohio Internal Medicine Physicians

By quartile of total revenue and category of services.  Same analysis as applied to Family Physicians.  Internal Medicine physicians tend to perform a wider range of different types of services.

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Summary of Medicare Payments to Family Physicians in Ohio

This graph breaks down the average billing category revenue amounts by Quartile of Total Revenues for Family Physicians in Ohio for 2012.  (This is not a “per provider” average, but an average revenue earned by providers providing that service in … Continue reading

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Service Intensity and Physician Income

Service Intensity and Physician IncomeConclusions From Medicare’s Physician Data Release ONLINE FIRST Jonathan Bergman, MD, MPH1,2,3; Christopher S. Saigal, MD, MPH1,3,4; Mark S. Litwin, MD, MPH1,5 [+] Author Affiliations JAMA Intern Med. Published online December 08, 2014. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.6397 Text Size: A A A http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1984245 Results: These data … Continue reading

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