It’s a fact often cited by CDI professionals: An accurate and complete medical record can serve several important purposes—from correct coding and billing, to accurate quality measures, to better patient care. Now, hospitals in New York, Illinois, Texas, and California are using patients’...Read More »
Earlier this week, CMS announced the introduction of the CMS Primary Cares initiative, a voluntary, risk-based initiative to transform primary care to a value-based system that rewards physicians who keep patients healthy and out of the hospital.Read More »
CMS released the FY 2020 IPPS proposed rule on Tuesday, April 23. Coming in at 1,824 pages long, the rule includes nearly 1,500 CC/MCC designation changes, 324 changes to the ICD-10-CM codes, updates to...Read More »
First-year residents spend almost five times more hours on indirect patient care than on face-to-face patient care, according to the results of the iCOMPARE trial published in the JAMA Internal...Read More »
Sacramento-based Sutter Health LLC and several affiliates will pay $30 million to settle allegations that they were overpaid after submitting inflated information about the dire...Read More »
