CMS recently updated Hospital Compare web site data for 30-day mortality rates and 30-day readmissions rates for inpatients admitted with heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia. The data shows national declines in 30-day mortality rates of 15.9% from 2007 through 2010. (Read more at...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 »
One of the most confusing diagnoses to code and sequence is the acute myocardial infarction (AMI). It is the elephant in the room of circulatory diagnoses—it takes up the most space and can never be ignored. I’m going to try to make some...Read More »
Q: Should queries from different departments be treated and stored differently? Should they be placed in a different location or anything along those lines?
We are currently seeking speakers to present at the 2012 ACDIS fifth Annual Conference, to be held May 10-11, 2012 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.
Is that special person you or a colleague?
We seek speakers to present on all aspects of clinical...Read More »
CMS released the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule, Monday, Aug. 1, reducing a previously proposed negative 3.9% documentation and coding adjustment (DCA) payment offset to just 2%. The 2% DCA is even lower than the 2011 rate of 2.9%.
