With dozens of local chapters meeting all across the country it may come as no surprise that leaders have sprung forward with more than a dozen...Read More »
Even as CDI programs begin to expand their focus to areas addressed under the Value-Based Purchasing program such as the Hospital Readmission...Read More »
The latest statistics for short-term acute care facilities (hospitals) with statistics through the fourth quarter of FY 2014, were recently...Read More »
Effective documentation of the condition and the patients’ co-morbidities may help lawyers successfully defend physicians in litigation regarding...Read More »
Three university hospitals saw a doubling of Recovery Auditor (RAC) audit activity from 2010–2011 to 2012–2013, and a nearly three-fold increase...Read More »
For calendar years (CYs) 2010 and 2011, Medicare paid hospitals $711 million for claims that included a diagnosis code for Kwashiorkor, a form of...Read More »
Query revision for ICD-10-CM/ PCS compliance is underway for at least 51% of those responding to a recent ACDIS poll. Of the 657 responses, 46%...Read More »
As healthcare reform bring changes in reimbursement and focus, it also brings a shift in job titles, roles, and responsibilities throughout the...Read More »
