In a settlement with the Health and Human Services Department’s (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR), Montefiore Medical Center will pay a $4.75 million fine for failing to secure patient data. The New York City-based health system was charged with several violations of the Health Insurance...Read More »
Q: I have a couple of questions regarding CDI metric expectations, reporting, and education for your CDI teams. I have been working on a CDI metrics report of the expected systemwide versus individual query rate, review rate, physician response rate, agreement rate, and expected...Read More »
Q: What is the pathway for mortality cases at your organization? We review the mortality cases that have a risk of mortality (ROM) and severity of illness score of 4 or below, and to improve the observed to expected ratio (O:E). The workflow, however, is inefficient, and the CDI team...Read More »
Approximately 33% of patients who experienced a first-time atrial fibrillation (AF) episode while hospitalized for noncardiac reasons had additional AF episodes up to one year after being discharged, according to a study recently...Read More »
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently concluded an audit aimed at determining whether significant cost savings could be realized for the Medicare program in post-acute care (PAC) discharge policy, according to a press...Read More »
Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice was produced through the joint effort of ACDIS and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). Both associations collaborated on the creation of this practice brief and approved its contents, and as such it...Read More »
