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Welcome to e4health's Monthly Pulse!
Empowering healthcare professionals with the latest industry news, education, and resources. |
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You Asked. We Delivered! |
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Everything Else Is On Demand.
Your Coding Coverage Should Be, Too!
Introducing e4health On-Demand Coding Services: qualified remote production coders matched to your specialty and schedule, with a flat hourly rate, no subscription, and no minimums. Pay only for the hours you use and adjust your coverage as your needs change. This new offering gives coding leaders a flexible way to keep work moving through staffing gaps, volume spikes, and the approaching holiday season.
The launch also follows Black Book's announcement today of its expanded 2027 mid-revenue cycle research framework, in which e4health was named the #1 client-rated vendor in Clinical Denial, Appeal and Documentation Recovery Services, one of 19 new categories built around accountability for outcomes between the clinical record and the claim.
The recognition builds on e4health's #1 ranking in HIM Advisory for three consecutive years (2024–2026) and reflects what on-demand clients can expect: coding that holds up when payers push back. |
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Let's Connect! 🤝
The e4health team is heading to AHIMA26, and we’re excited to bring something a little different to the show floor this year! Step into the e4health Oasis at Booth #1040 for a refreshing change of pace and a few surprises you won’t want to miss.
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A Short Window of Senior Health IT Capacity Just Opened
Our Healthcare IT Operations & Consulting team brings program and project managers, health IT specialists, and revenue cycle consultants who have run these initiatives before: Epic and Oracle Health go-lives, legacy decommissioning, testing and integration, application and ERP support.
A limited number of these consultants come available in the next few weeks. If you have a major initiative landing in Q4 or early 2027, now is the time to lock in the team.
Tell Us What's On Your Roadmap > |
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💡 A Stronger Foundation Before Epic Goes Live
How do you prepare for a major technology transformation while strengthening daily operations? See how e4health brought together CDI, Coding & Audit, HIM, and Health IT to help one health system improve documentation, coding quality, data integrity, and security while preparing for Epic and Workday implementations. |
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What If Coding Cost You 30% Less Next Year?
e4health's technology-enabled coding model collapses vendor sprawl into one accountable partner: GenAI-assisted coding, e4health quality oversight, and 95%+ accuracy holding steady. Most organizations we model are carrying more vendor overhead and rework than they realize.
Free financial model analysis. Share your current coding spend and volumes and we'll build a side-by-side against our model. No cost, no commitment.
Get Your Free Analysis > |
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🎙️ e4health TAlks Episode 4!
Before she was a COO, she was walking bean fields in Iowa. 🌱 In Episode 4 of e4health TAlks, Lauren Alston sits down with Staci Josten, Chief Operating Officer of Mid-Revenue Cycle, to explore her journey from bedside nursing to healthcare leadership. |
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📅 Upcoming CDI Roundtable |
💡Query rates and chart review counts show how busy your CDI team is. They don't show whether documentation actually improved, whether the coding held up, or whether the program earned its budget. Join our CDI experts for a practical look at what a real CDI quality program measures, and how to stand one up without adding headcount.
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📚 FREE Coding Education, Every Month |
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Start Smart is e4health's free monthly coding education series, built to keep you ahead of Coding Clinic guidance, ICD-10 and CPT updates, regulatory changes, and the real world coding challenges in between. Each tip sheet breaks down key considerations you can apply right away, whether you're coding every day or leading a coding team.
✅ Free to access. ✅ New content monthly.
Looking for customized coding education for your organization? Reach out to education@e4.health to start the conversation.
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💡 Coding Education Is a Journey That Never Ends |
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What keeps coding professionals growing at every stage of their careers? Nicole Langevin shares how earning her CCS after more than 20 years in healthcare reinforced the value of curiosity, continuous learning, and supportive leadership in building confident teams and strengthening coding accuracy.
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🔎 Fresh Guidance From Our CDI Leaders |
Each month, our CDI Leadership Team collaborates on a focused tip to help you sharpen your skills and stay current in a fast-moving field. We partner with our coding colleagues on every one, so the guidance you get supports clinical integrity and drives documentation excellence. |
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Looking to enhance operational efficiency, maximize reimbursement, and reduce denials? Schedule a brief discovery call by clicking here to fill out a short form, and our team will reach out to assist you!
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We offer coding and CDI courses to help health information professionals stay up-to-date. As an AHIMA-Approved and AAPC-Approved provider of continuing education units (CEUs), we offer online courses that meet ongoing training requirements.
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🧠 Stay Current! |
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Our Education Team wants to make sure you're "In The Know" with our latest coding tip!
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| 📉 Medicare Lab Payment Changes Could Affect More Than 1,100 Codes | Preliminary Medicare laboratory payment rates for 2027 could reduce reimbursement for more than 1,100 test codes, with annual reductions capped at 15% through 2029. The rates remain subject to public comment before finalization in November, making this an important development for organizations assessing laboratory revenue and preparing next year’s budgets.
Source: Becker’s Hospital Review | | 💰 Draft Proposal Takes Aim at Automatic Medicare Advantage Downcoding | | A draft legislative proposal would prohibit Medicare Advantage plans from automatically downcoding physician claims. An alternative approach would require evidence of excessive upcoding, notification to the physician, and a 90-day limit on automatic reductions. Although the proposal is not law, it reflects growing attention to payment transparency and the administrative burden of challenging claim adjustments.Source: Medical Economics | | 🔄 Electronic Prior Authorization & the Push to Keep 2027 Implementation on Track | | The AMA is urging CMS to maintain the January 1, 2027, implementation timeline for electronic prior authorization and reject requests for broad enforcement delays. The transition aims to replace fragmented manual processes with connected electronic workflows. Reliable technology, clear documentation requirements, and staff training will be essential as providers prepare for changes intended to reduce administrative work and care delays.Source: American Medical Association (AMA) |
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Interested in joining our team? We're currently hiring across a variety of roles nationwide. 🚀
Have questions about a position or want to learn more about life at e4health? Connect with our Talent Acquisition team today. We'd love to start the conversation.
🔎Browse our open positions by clicking here.
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Eric Sellari
Account Executive
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e4health is Empowering Better Health. Serving more than 400 health systems and providers nationwide, e4health solves the most difficult challenges in the mid-revenue cycle with innovative and flexible healthcare solutions that deliver results, drive change, protect investments, and support long term value.
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