The 5th Annual ACDIS Conference early registration cutoff date is next Friday, March 9. This year's conference will be held at the Manchester Grand...Read More »
As of Wednesday, February 29, hospitals can access their Value-Based Purchasing Simulated Hospital Report via QualityNet, according to a CMS spokesman who walked participants through a sample report earlier this week.
Beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, CMS will reimburse facility under...Read More »
The fourth quarter 2011 Short-Term Acute Care Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) is available via QualityNet. This PEPPER release suppresses data regarding “PTCA with Stent” statistics due to problems in the national Medicare claims data warehouse and includes a...Read More »
Review Medicaid Integrity Contractors (MICs) completed 81% of their CMS assignments resulting in potential $282 million in possible recoveries for Jan. 1, 2010, to June 30, 2010, according to a February OIG report...Read More »
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. At least Shakespeare says so.
And what does that have to do with ICD-10-PCS coding, you might ask? Well, you won’t find eponyms—words derived from the name of a real, fictional, mythical, or spurious...Read More »
