You know those somewhat helpful hints you most often find in Women’s Day magazine but which have cropped up recently on web browsers’ homepages? They’re usually things like “8 great meals to make for dinner tonight!” or “10 helpful hints to make your bathroom...Read More »
Hypothetical question: You don’t know how to swim, but you’re learning. You have an inner tube around your waist. Now, where would you rather continue your lessons–in the pool in your backyard or in the ocean?
A friend of mine posed this question to me...Read More »
So you’ve been trudging along with your program; the numbers look good to fair, and when you speak with physicians they seem to understand the bigger picture but you know your program could be better. So how do you “shock” it back to life? Usually...Read More »
Every institution reading this column has likely received its first recovery audit contractor (RAC) denials regarding the documentation and coding of excisional debridement procedures (86.22). Our hospital is no exception. While we knew that this...Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-CDI, CCDS
From the perspective of the hospital administration, the revenue cycle may be defined to include all administrative and clinical functions that contribute to the capture, management, and collection of patient service revenue. ...Read More »
It’s the end of the year, and many of us have been on the fast track to EHRs and EDMS installation, so we pause this month for a little levity and to honor all those working so hard behind the scenes. Happy holidays to all the brave...Read More »
I thought I’d discuss a few metrics I use which are not the standard metrics such as percentage of cases reviewed, query rate, response rate, agree rate, etc. One of my motivations in considering and reflecting on metric choices is to find fairly simple...Read More »
Colleagues, as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act implementation progresses, the quality and outcomes of care face increasing public scrutiny. Policymakers will determine our complication rates and publicize them on the Internet,...Read More »
