CMS attempted, once again, to resolve ongoing patient status confusion—this time in its Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule.Read More »
Want to know what the top 10 MS-DRGs are in the country? Just ask CMS, which released its third annual update to the Medicare hospital inpatient and outpatient charge data in June.Read More »
The American Medical Association (AMA) made another attempt to delay ICD-10 recently, but the delay wasn’t of code-set implementation, however, but of its impact post-implementation.Read More »
On June 16, a Senate committee examined how to improve electronic health record (EHR) systems, focusing on the physician’s experience which, as CDI specialists know, can be a source of frustration and lack of engagement for physicians.Read More »
Facilities struggling with their electronic health record (EHR) system need to get back to basics, according to a report published by The American Medical Informatics Association’s (AMIA) EHR 2020 Task Force on May 29.Read More »