ReviewSAGE open medicine2022
A systematic review of outpatient billing practices.
Review in SAGE open medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Billing and Coding Rounds: Turning Daily Encounters Into Dollars and Sense.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2026Article
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- Barriers and Facilitators of the Use of Computerized Critical Care Information Systems in the Intensive Care Unit: Qualitative Interview Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Real-time automated billing for tobacco treatment: developing and validating a scalable machine learning approach.JAMIA open · 2025Article
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- Using Medical Named Entity Recognition in Automatic ICD Prediction.BioMed research international · 2025Article
- Changes in female cancer diagnostic billing rates over the COVID-19 period in the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2025Article
- Self-Reported Comfort and Use of Tobacco Cessation Interventions by Healthcare Providers.Cureus · 2024Article
- Empowering Health Care Providers: A Collaborative Approach to Enhance Financial Performance and Productivity in Clinical Practice.Neurology. Clinical practice · 2024Article
- Evaluating the concordance between International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision Code and stroke severity as measured by the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale.BMJ neurology open · 2024Article
- Medical Billing: It All Adds Up to Quality.ATS scholar · 2023Article
- Extracting Pain Care Quality Indicators from U.S. Veterans Health Administration Chiropractic Care Using Natural Language Processing.Applied clinical informatics · 2023Article
- Development of billing post competency evaluation index system for nurses in China: a Delphi study.BMC nursing · 2023Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Objectives: Healthcare coding and billing are an important aspect of practice management that directly impacts the financial stability of a health care practice. To financially sustain or grow a medical practice, it is imperative that resident and faculty physicians have knowledge and skills for accurate billing in every patient encounter. Methods: A systematic review was conducted to identify recently published studies that report on improvements in medical coding and billing accuracy, clinical documentation, and reimbursement rate. A search of three databases yielded a total of 5754 records. After screening, 41 records were sought for retrieval and a total of 18 records were obtained for review. Results: Following a thorough review of literature, the most common reasons for inaccurate or inappropriate billing were a lack of formal education within residency curriculum, inadequate clinical documentation supporting level of billing, and lack of a feedback system aimed to correct billing errors. Conclusion: A formal education curriculum implemented in training could enhance knowledge and application of accurate billing and coding and further benefit practice longevity. The purpose of this systematic review is to apply knowledge gained to the development and implementation of a quality improvement study intended to improve accuracy of coding and billing within an academic pediatric outpatient center.
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