HCC Coding: More Than Just a List of Diagnoses Article Reference Code: NAMAS.07.10.2026 Written by: Amy Wheeler CPC, CPB, CDEO, CPMA, CRC, CRC-I, CPA-RA A patient presents for an annual wellness visit. The problem list includes diabetes with complications, chronic kidney disease, major depressive disorder, and heart failure. Each diagnosis maps neatly to an HCC. At first glance,…
EMR Hacks from Auditors Who’ve Seen It All Article Reference Code: NAMAS.07.03.2026 Written by: Melissa Kirshner and Erin Fogolini During COVID, how many of us had telehealth visits only to review the progress note uploaded to the provider’s electronic medical records (EMR) to see “lungs clear to auscultation, heart RRR”? When questioning a provider after…
Build-A-Bot: Tools I Created or Customized to Help Me Audit Smarter Article Reference Code: NAMAS.06.26.2026 Written by: Christine Hall When I first started in healthcare, we did not have fancy dashboards, AI assistants, or automation tools. We had paper reports, highlighters, sticky notes, and a whole lot of determination. Over the years, I learned that…
Coding in the Age of AI: Friend or Foe? Article Reference Code: NAMAS.05.22.2026 Written by: Stephanie Allard, CPC, CEMA, RHIT Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming medical coding through auto coding tools, natural language processing, and AI driven scribes. These technologies offer efficiency, but they also introduce new compliance risks that require monitoring and oversight.…