Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia, Washington, has had a successful inpatient CDI program for seven years. In spring 2014, the facility, which encompasses 32 clinics and two acute care hospitals, began discussing CDI in the ambulatory setting, says...Read More »
For CDI specialists, the daunting landscape of changing healthcare initiatives may seem like a broad expanse of impenetrable woods. It's an ecosystem which includes quality-based initiatives related to readmission reductions, 30-day mortality, Patient Safety Indicators, complications, present on...Read More »
Healthcare reimbursement is changing; both CMS and private payers are working toward payment methodologies that reflect quality of care versus quantity of care. In most cases, quality is measured based on patient outcomes. The concept of risk adjustment is now being applied to healthcare...Read More »
by Anny Pang Yuen, RHIA, CCS, CCDS, CDIP
As healthcare providers increasingly accept financial risk associated with patient management due to the transition from fee-for-service to riskbased/ value-based reimbursement, the traditional model of healthcare reimbursement has been...Read More »
by Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS
The coding function would not exist if there were no physician documentation from which to code. The challenge for coders is not so much that there is no physician documentation; it’s that the documentation they have does not...Read More »
