CMS recently released its Short-Term (ST) Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) with statistics through the third quarter of the fiscal year 2016 for hospitals nationwide.
The PEPPER allows hospitals to compare Medicare billing practices against those of other...Read More »
Nearly every professional association provides some type of vocation-specific guidance regarding ethical behavior. Periodically such recommendations need to be revised or updated to meet the changing needs of the industry. Such revision now comes from the American Health Information Management...Read More »
At a confidential agency briefing in August 2010, CMS officials outlined steps to recover more than $128 million in alleged 2007 overpayments from five Medicare Advantage insurer...Read More »
Call it a no-brainer but recent research shows a “strong association” related to “clinically validated” patient safety indicators (PSIs) and patient outcomes such as increased length of stay and high rates of hospital readmissions and mortality. It is a no-brainer because PSIs are a set of...Read More »
Nearly 60% of patients say that online reviews matter to them when choosing a physician, according to a study conducted by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2014. However, the scope and usefulness of those online reviews are limited, according to a study conducted by JAMA...Read More »
It's time to submit nominations for the ACDIS Achievement Awards, to be presented at the 10th annual ACDIS Conference, May 9 - 12, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Please fill out the nomination form by Friday, February 17, 2017. Click here:...Read More »
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Every quarter since January 2014, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has collected and published survey data from its member facilities regarding government audit activities in its RACTrac surveys, reports, and related webinars. Although new Recovery Auditor contracts were awarded in...Read More »