Obtaining ABNs and implementing an effective process.

In the current healthcare environment, it is critical that healthcare providers get every penny to which they are entitled. It seems that each year healthcare providers are forced to do more with less and imaging services in particular have taken a huge hit in reimbursement starting back in 2005 with the implementation of the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA). Payment reductions will likely continue over the next several years.

The value of mentoring.

Mentoring is a vital way that professionals give back to the profession. Here, three distinguished AHIMA mentors explain their commitment to advancing the profession one person at a time.