A False Claims Act lawsuit accuses UnitedHealthcare Group of a scheme which may have allowed its subsidiaries and other insurers to improperly overcharge Medicare by “hundreds of millions — and likely billions — of dollars,”...Read More »
More than a quarter of physician practices fell short of revenue goals in 2016, according to a poll released January 17 by the Medical Group Management Association,...Read More »
The codes in ICD-10-CM Chapter 13, Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue, cover diagnoses for conditions throughout the body. Due to the wide scope of conditions in the chapter, it had extensive updates for 2017,...Read More »
What is a best practice? Who or what defines it? We hear it talked about all the time, but what does it really mean, and whom does it apply to?
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “best practice” as a noun meaning “a procedure that...Read More »
Since the advent of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, CDI professionals have known that physician copy and paste errors pose a threat to accurate documentation. Consequently, these errors can also negatively affect patient safety as well, according to a...Read More »
A Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) study showed insufficient documentation caused the most improper payments for facet joint injections, according to the January 2016 Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter.Read More »
Nearly half of the death certificates reviewed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2012 listed the cause of death inaccurately. The Morbidity and Mortality Report, published in January, reviewed 205 medical charts at random from eight separate hospitals in the...Read More »