Last week, CMS released a report on the first-year performance of the agency’s Next Generation ACO model. For the 2016 performance year, the model generated net savings for Medicare of about $62 million while...Read More »
Q:We are receiving denials on the grounds that encephalopathy must be resolved prior to discharge in order to be present. How would you suggest we fight these denials?Read More »
Roughly 150 physician groups sent a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma on Monday both praising and criticizing the administration’s planned changes in the 2019 physician fee schedule.Read More »
by Denise Wilson, RN, MS, RRT, and Karla Hiravi, RN, BSN
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a sudden and temporary loss of kidney function, while acute tubular necrosis (ATN) is kidney injury characterized by acute tubular cell injury and dysfunction. CDI professionals need to...Read More »
The end of last week brought news of a lawsuit that appears to have broad and deep ramifications for the CDI profession. Providence Health & Services, a 34-hospital system headquartered in Renton, Washington, has been hit with a $188.1 million lawsuit for...Read More »
The 30-day hospital readmission rate for stroke patients declined by an annual average of 3.3% from 2010 to 2014, MedPage Today reported. According to national data on more than two million stroke hospital discharges,...Read More »
Certain decision support alerts built into hospital EHR systems can lower costs, readmissions, and complications for patients, according to a new study published in the...Read More »
