As healthcare reform bring changes in reimbursement and focus, it also brings a shift in job titles, roles, and responsibilities throughout the industry, James U. King, senior partner, chief quality officer and children's hospitals practice lead at executive staffing firm Witt/Kieffer, told ...Read More »
Medicare’s Value-Based Purchasing ties reimbursement to quality measures, assessing criteria such as mortality, patient satisfaction, and other items.Read More »
Q: Our facility is considering having our coders and CDI specialists “go–live” with ICD-10-CM/PCS on July 1, in order to practice to help off-set the impact of ICD-10. The system will would then code backwards into ICD-9-CM for billing. Is this “backward mapping” method appropriate?Read More »
by Brian Murphy, CPC
Let’s move forward with full implementation of ICD-10 on October 1, 2015, both for hospitals and physicians. But let’s also see a more transparent application process for the Cooperating Parties, allowing physicians/clinicians full representation at the table...Read More »
We welcome the new members of the ACDIS Advisory Board and encourage you to visit the Advisory Board page on www.ACDIS.org in the coming days to learn more about our newest members and to reconnect with the rest of the board.Read More »
January was full of successful local chapter events despite Mother Nature’s best attempts to cover them with a wet, snowy blanket, and chapter leaders have much in the works for February and March.Read More »
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced last week plans to ramp up Medicare payment reforms featuring alternative payment models and value-based payments.Read More »