Recovery Auditor medical record requests and automated and complex denials all fell slightly in the first quarter of 2016, as did the average...Read More »
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is concerned about the documentation and coding reduction, changes to disproportionate share hospital (DSH...Read More »
One size does NOT fit all when it comes to health insurance. Beneficiaries range from the extremely healthy 65-year-old—the poster child for “65...Read More »
Risk adjustment requires coding and CDI professionals to work together as one team to ensure the capture of the most appropriate risk score for...Read More »
Mark Morsch, MS
For more than five years, organizations were warned that they should expect decreases in productivity due to ICD-10 unfamiliarity and documentation specificity challenges. But what do the real numbers say? This session will look at real-world results of multiple...
In this era of value-based purchasing, accurate capture of respiratory failure not only impacts accurate MS-DRG assignment, but also CMS pay-for-performance claims-based outcomes such as mortality, readmission, and patient safety measures. This...
Every day CDI specialists and coding professionals struggle with the question: Is this a complication or an expected outcome of surgery? With an increase in publicly reported physician and hospital data, accurately reporting complications is vital to the...
