Quality & Regulatory

Now more than a decade removed from CDI programs’ widespread adoption, CDI professionals have an impact on nearly all aspects of healthcare—from...Read More »

CMS announced a new rule recently, called the Program...Read More »

One in six physicians estimated that they make daily diagnostic errors, according to a recent...Read More »

During last week’s MedPAC meeting, MedPAC...Read More »

The number of malpractice claims in which the use of EHRs has contributed to patient injuries has been growing, according to...Read More »

By Candace Blankenship, BSN, RN, CCDS
The role of the CDI specialist is in constant flux. When I started out as a CDI specialist,...Read More »

Come 2021, hospitals could receive new star ratings from CMS,...Read More »

CMS proposes to extrapolate results from Medicare Advantage (MA) audits and apply an overall error rate for all plans, according to...Read More »

Hospitals may be trying to avoid readmitting patients in order to sidestep CMS penalties under Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP),...Read More »

The annual cost of hospital inpatient spending from commercially insured patients was more than $200 billion in 2018, according to...Read More »