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CMS recently updated Hospital Compare web site data for 30-day mortality rates and 30-day readmissions rates for inpatients admitted with heart...Read More »

It started with two courageous coders who knew the query process where they worked at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Inc., in Baltimore,...Read More »

Much discussion has been held of late regarding the creation of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). Not to be left out of the discussion process...Read More »

Healthcare providers in the A/B MAC jurisdiction 1 have a problem—a paid claims error rate that’s nearly twice the national average for Part B...Read More »

CMS released the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule, Monday, Aug. 1, reducing a previously proposed negative 3.9%...Read More »

CMS recently released its July edition of the Medicare...Read More »

The latest group of recipients of the CCDS credential met the requirements for the CCDS certification program and passed the exam in the period...Read More »

RACs can easily data-mine for noncompliance related to coding for ventilator support, says Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, C-...Read More »

Inpatient hospital claims submitted to Medicare contain “a significant amount” of incorrect principal diagnoses, according to a...Read More »

Evaluation and Management (E/M) services accounted for $28 billion in Part B payments nationally from April 2009 to May 2010, ...Read More »