In a settlement with the Health and Human Services Department’s (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR), Montefiore Medical Center will pay a $4.75 million fine for failing to secure patient data. The New York City-based health system was charged with several violations of the Health Insurance...Read More »
Q: I have a couple of questions regarding CDI metric expectations, reporting, and education for your CDI teams. I have been working on a CDI metrics report of the expected systemwide versus individual query rate, review rate, physician response rate, agreement rate, and expected...Read More »
Q: What is the pathway for mortality cases at your organization? We review the mortality cases that have a risk of mortality (ROM) and severity of illness score of 4 or below, and to improve the observed to expected ratio (O:E). The workflow, however, is inefficient, and the CDI team...Read More »
Approximately 33% of patients who experienced a first-time atrial fibrillation (AF) episode while hospitalized for noncardiac reasons had additional AF episodes up to one year after being discharged, according to a study recently...Read More »
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently concluded an audit aimed at determining whether significant cost savings could be realized for the Medicare program in post-acute care (PAC) discharge policy, according to a press...Read More »