Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess hospital is the latest facility to succumb to investigations regarding potentially inappropriate billing for inpatient services, according to a February 6 article in...Read More »
The auditing arm of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to crack down on hospital performance in the areas of reporting of adverse events and quality measure data, present on admission coding, inpatient outlier payments, and same-day readmissions.
By Vickie Balistreri, BA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CCDS, CPC, CPC-H
“Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand.” I often think about that adage when attempting to educate physicians about CDI efforts. One of the most challenging and yet...Read More »
If the data is true, the population of a couple of concentrated areas in California suffer from kwashiorkor syndrome, a type of malnutrition typically seen among children in third-world countries, according to...Read More »
Realizing that the go-live date won’t change, some facilities already have organization-wide ICD-10 implementation strategies in place. If your CDI program hasn’t yet been involved in ICD-10 discussions or if your facility hasn’t starting the planning process yet, consider incorporating elements...Read More »
Three types of mistakes—insufficient documentation, miscoded claims, and medically unnecessary services and supplies—accounted for nearly 98% of errors common across six different provider types, according to the July 14 report ...Read More »
Recent CDI-related headlines include concerns about the burden of paperwork on patient care and the cost of healthcare. And article authors cite a few recent surveys to back up such assertions.
In 2008, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) reviewed a sample of nearly 300 Medicare hospitalizations from two counties in a one-week period in order to analyze current methods of identifying adverse events in hospitals. According to a report released this month, vulnerabilities exist in...Read More »
