With the launch of the CMS AI Health Outcomes Challenge, healthcare facilities should expect to see investigations on artificial intelligence being used for auditing. CMS says the AI Health Outcomes Challenge is an “opportunity for innovators to demonstrate how AI tools […] can be used to...Read More »
According to HCPro’s 2019 coding productivity survey, while coding productivity held steady, missing documentation and unanswered queries bog down coders, reported JustCoding. CDI, according to survey respondents, may be able to help ease these troubles.
Home health agencies across the country are grappling with a significant change in how Medicare pays for services, reported HealthLeaders Media. To qualify for services under the new system, a person must be homebound and in need of intermittent skilled care (less than eight hours a day...Read More »
A new report from CMS found that providers used Z codes to report social determinants of health (SDOH) for 467,136 Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries in 2017, which is nearly 5% more than in 2016. CMS notes that this represents 1.4% of the 33.7 million total Medicare FFS beneficiaries...Read More »
CMS announced that the Medicare website will soon be combining its eight separate Compare tools into one, standardized and simplified format, reported HealthLeaders Media. Currently, CMS uses a combination of the following platforms on https...Read More »
Physicians spend an average of 16 minutes and 14 seconds per patient encounter using electronic health records (EHRs), according to a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Of this time, 33% was chart review, 24% documentation, and 17% ordering functions were the...Read More »
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) voted unanimously to recommend hospitals receive a 3.3% raise in 2021.
CMS has already scheduled a 2.8% raise to hospitals for inpatient and outpatient services, but MedPAC recommends that congress increase net payments even more....Read More »
A new study estimates that sepsis is at least partially responsible for roughly 11 million global deaths in 2017 out of 56 million total deaths. This means sepsis was at least partially responsible for 20% of the worldwide deaths that year. Undertaken by a dozen collaborators at the University...Read More »
