There's no better way to celebrate the New Year than with these educational opportunities. Make good on your CDI educational resolutions. Get involved. The following states are holding meetings in January:
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense accused Baltimore-based Kernan Hospital, a part of the University of Maryland Medical System, of inappropriately billing “protein malnutrition” as “kwashiorkor”—a $1.6 million potential error that could ultimately cost the...Read More »
$8.9 million. That is the amount Kentucky-based Baptist Healthcare Systems, Inc., had to pay as of September 1 to settle claims of improper billing related to respiratory infections and inflammations, pulmonary edema (fluid accumulation in the lungs), respiratory failure, and septicemia (blood...Read More »
It started with two courageous coders who knew the query process where they worked at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Inc., in Baltimore, wasn't quite right--or compliant.
Specifically, the hospital employed a physician who worked in the billing department to review clinical...Read More »
Healthcare providers in the A/B MAC jurisdiction 1 have a problem—a paid claims error rate that’s nearly twice the national average for Part B claims, according to a recent letter from...Read More »