Last week, CMS announced new initiatives to improve Medicaid program integrity “through greater transparency and accountability, strengthened data...Read More »
Last week, the AHA submitted four, non-deadline related remedies to reduce the backlog of Medicare billing appeals awaiting adjudication at the...Read More »
Examining readmission and mortality changes from 2010 to 2016, MedPAC found the HRRP contributed to a significant decline in readmission rates...Read More »
Surgical patients who received nutritional intervention during their hospital stay saw their 30-day readmission rate cut nearly in half, falling...Read More »
ICD-11 reflects critical advances in science and medicine and is the first code set revision to be well integrated with EHRs and information...Read More »
The recently released FY 2019 ICD-10-CM update adds some codes to allow additional diagnoses to be reported while adding others for greater...Read More »
Revenue integrity is still the new kid on the block as far as hospital departments and roles are concerned, so it’s not surprising that more than...Read More »
Hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) declined by 8% between 2014 and 2016, preventing an estimated 8,000 deaths and $2.9 billion in healthcare costs...Read More »