Now more than a decade removed from CDI programs’ widespread adoption, CDI professionals have an impact on nearly all aspects of healthcare—from reimbursement, to quality reporting, to denials prevention and appeal writing, to patient care. That’s what the 2019 CDI Week theme celebrates—“CDI...Read More »
During last week’s MedPAC meeting, MedPAC proposed a program that would tie quality to payments for skill nursing facilities, home health service, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and long-...Read More »
CMS proposes to extrapolate results from Medicare Advantage (MA) audits and apply an overall error rate for all plans, according to an article in FierceHealthcare...Read More »
Hospitals may be trying to avoid readmitting patients in order to sidestep CMS penalties under Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP), according to a new study published in The BMJ.
