The OIG has been conducting a series of studies about adverse events (patient harm) in various healthcare settings since 2008 and will be publishing more of its corresponding reports throughout 2019.Read More »
Using financial penalties to reduce hospital readmissions has been linked to a significant rise in post-discharge mortality for patients with heart failure and pneumonia.Read More »
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association found that using population health data could help identify patients with a high...Read More »
As part of the fiscal year 2019 IPPS final rule, CMS required hospitals to publish their lists of retail charges for individual services and DRGs in online spreadsheets starting...Read More »
The HHS draft strategy to reduce EHR burdens lists several elements related to clinical documentation principally focused on previous recommended changes to E/M...Read More »
