Healthcare coding has fundamentally transformed from volume-driven revenue capture to compliance-first, defensible documentation standards.

Information about medical eligibility, benefits, claims and referral information. To support OHSU Health IDS members transition from CareOregon providers, Health Share of Oregon is distributing a list ...

The tumor microenvironment is an inhospitable ecosystem. “For bacteria, they kind of don't care about all of that. They are really, at a very general level, looking for a place where they can survive ...

Background: With a high incidence and dismal survival rate, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tops the list of the world’s most frequent malignant tumors. Immunotherapy is a new approach to cancer ...

Cancer drug resistance has always been a major difficulty in cancer therapy. In the face of drug pressure, resistant cancer cells show complex molecular mechanisms including epigenetic changes to ...

1. What is the Mid Staffs scandal? A disputed estimate [see footnote] suggested that between 400 and 1,200 patients died as a result of poor care over the 50 months between January 2005 and March 2009 ...

Current methods of risk adjustment rely on diagnoses recorded in clinical and administrative records. Differences among providers in diagnostic practices could lead to bias. We used Medicare claims ...