Quality & Regulatory

Editor’s note: Over the coming weeks leading up to the conference, we’ll take some time to introduce members to a...Read More »

Q: Can coders change the principal diagnosis assignment without querying the physician?

A: Once the...Read More »

Intensive care units are expensive, invasive, and supposed to be reserved for the sickest hospital patients, but more than half the time, they're...Read More »

Even after Medicare officials agreed that seniors cannot be denied...Read More »

Editor’s Note: Over the comings weeks, we’ll take some time to introduce members to a few of this year’s ACDIS...Read More »

Healthcare providers need to dedicate resources to increasing case-mix index, improving discharge disposition code accuracy, reducing readmission...Read More »

CMS recently updated its Recovery Audit program webpages with names of each new contractor, respective regions of responsibility, with links for...Read More »

HCPro is currently seeking speakers to present at the 2017 Revenue Integrity Symposium (RIS), to be held October 21–22, 2017, in Nashville,...Read More »

Continuing on its pay for performance agenda, CMS released information about new bundled payments related to cardiac diseases and hip replacements...Read More »

Every quarter since January 2014, the American Hospital Association (AHA) has collected and published survey data from its member facilities...Read More »