Skilled Nursing Payment Changes Looming
Published: Mon, 02/04/19
Skilled Nursing Payment Changes Looming The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was tired of paying too much for care in nursing homes.
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15 Things to Know About Medical Coding
Published: Sat, 02/02/19
15 Things to Know About Medical Coding Medical coding is a key component of revenue cycle management. When done efficiently and accurately, it helps…
Appealing Clinical Validation Denials in the Era of Sepsis-3
Published: Fri, 02/01/19
Appealing Clinical Validation Denials in the Era of Sepsis-3 I’d like to share some information gained from appealing over 2,000 clinical validation…
5 In-demand Healthcare Jobs
Published: Thu, 01/31/19
5 In-demand Healthcare Jobs Nurse practitioner and pharmacy technician are among the most sought-after healthcare jobs this year, according to a…
More Hospitals Sue HHS Over Outpatient Site-Neutral Payments
Published: Wed, 01/30/19
More Hospitals Sue HHS Over Outpatient Site-Neutral Payments Thirty-eight hospitals filed a lawsuit against HHS over a $380 million reduction in…
Is the ACA (Affordable Care Act) Really Going Away?
Published: Tue, 01/29/19
Is the ACA (Affordable Care Act) Really Going Away? As you have probably heard by now, a federal judge in Te as, U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, on…
Building a Better Electronic Health Record No Easy Task
Published: Mon, 01/28/19
Building a Better Electronic Health Record No Easy Task On morning rounds in the critical care unit, the post-call resident starts to present a…
2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Is HPI No Longer a Clinical Component?
Published: Sat, 01/26/19
2019 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Is HPI No Longer a Clinical Component? Since the release by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…
ICD-10: Pitfalls of Non-compliant Queries
Published: Fri, 01/25/19
ICD-10: Pitfalls of Non-compliant Queries The underlying hallmark of clinical documentation integrity (CDI) programs is the query process utilized to…
Which medical specialties use telemedicine the most?
Published: Tue, 01/22/19
Which medical specialties use telemedicine the most? Whether an individual physician is in a practice that uses telemedicine depends greatly on if…