The Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee met last week on March 5 and 6 to discuss proposed code changes in ICD-10-CM/PCS. The agendas for the meetings are available on the CMS...Read More »
Though CMS required hospitals to publish their list of retail charges for individual services and DRGs in online spreadsheets starting January 1 as part of the fiscal year 2019...Read More »
According to a new study published in PLOS One, hospital care teams frequently use handwritten notes and verbal comments to communicate patient information in order to bypass design and...Read More »
Hospital star ratings were updated publicly Thursday for the first time since 2017, despite long-running accusations that the government’s methodology presents...Read More »
Eight hundred hospitals will see a pay cut this year from Medicare due to high rates of infections and patient injuries. This is the highest number of cuts since the launch of the HAC Reduction Program five years ago.Read More »
Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana, disputes an OIG report that found DRG assignment errors and incorrect IRF claims, resulting in an projected $22,051,602 in overpayments.Read More »
The rate of physician burnout has dropped 10.5 percentage points over the past three years but remains at an alarming level, according to research published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings last week....Read More »
A former Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) nurse accused the hospital chain of fraudulently billing the federal government for services at Regional Medical Center in San Jose, California, to inflate reimbursement.Read More »
