Hospitals may be trying to avoid readmitting patients in order to sidestep CMS penalties under Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), according to a new study published in The BMJ.
If you missed last week’s ACDIS Quarterly Membership Call, you missed some big news. The Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists is changing its name—...Read More »
Publicly reported hospital quality ratings frequently offer conflicting results, which may be misleading to stakeholders and patients, according to a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine...Read More »
Findings from a CERT study show that insufficient documentation caused most improper payments for chiropractic services billed to Medicare in 2018, according to the ...Read More »
Providence Health & Services wasn’t the only one under fire from Integra Med Analytics. The firm also filed a suit alleging that Baylor Scott & White, a large Texas-based health system, wrongly billed Medicare for more than $61.8 million over seven years through the practice of upcoding...Read More »
