Last month, CMS announced its plan to launch a new voluntary bundled payment model—the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced (BPCI Advanced)—but neglected to include a full package of...Read More »
By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC
If your organization has an inpatient CDI team, decide if outpatient CDI will share the same reporting structure or if the teams should be separate. A shared reporting structure can allow the new...Read More »
When AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM,Second Quarter 2017, came out last year I found myself repeating a conversation I’d had with physicians many times before. Such is the life of a CDI professional—if it were one-and-done...Read More »
Only 12% of eligible hospitals signed up for CMS’ Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) Model 2 initiative and 47% of them dropped out completely within two years, according to a recent study by ...Read More »
CMS now allows teaching physicians to verify in the medical record any student documentation of E/M services, rather than re-documenting the work.Read More »