by Anny Pang Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP
As healthcare providers increasingly accept financial risk associated with patient management due to the transition from fee-for-service to riskbased/ value-based reimbursement, the traditional model of healthcare reimbursement has been...Read More »
“A graph is worth a thousand words,” says Matthew Bohl, business analyst for the CDI program at Baystate Health in Springfield, Massachusetts.Read More »
Just because you can measure something doesn’t mean should measure it, Jon Elion, MD, founder and CEO, ChartWise Medical Systems, told ICD-10 Monitor’s Talk Ten Tuesday...Read More »
Q: At my facility, we are to “pull” bad or un-credible queries from patient charts and report the query to our manager. Is there any official guidance on this practice?Read More »
At 11:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, Congress passed the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which effectively eliminated the more than 17-year battle over cuts to physician reimbursement associated with the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR).Read More »
by Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI
Some common disease processes require certain types of care. Healthcare specialties often create such standard care intervention checklists to increase efficiency in overall treatments, and to drive notable...Read More »
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) released joint physician query instructions in Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice in February 2013.
