As you put the final touches on your itinerary, we have a couple more speaker previews that we’d like to share with you. This week, we spoke with...Read More »
The CDI specialist’s role is changing. It’s no longer enough to query for diagnoses and report corresponding codes. The diagnosis must be backed...Read More »
At 11:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14, Congress passed the Medicare and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), which effectively eliminated the more than 17...Read More »
We’re less than six weeks away from our annual conference! As the countdown continues, we’re previewing a handful of speakers to give you a feel...Read More »
$2.3 billion. That’s what the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) earned back from healthcare fraud...Read More »
Three university hospitals saw a doubling of Recovery Auditor (RAC) audit activity from 2010–2011 to 2012–2013, and a nearly three-fold increase...Read More »
For calendar years (CYs) 2010 and 2011, Medicare paid hospitals $711 million for claims that included a diagnosis code for Kwashiorkor, a form of...Read More »