Policies & Procedures

Intensive care units are expensive, invasive, and supposed to be reserved for the sickest hospital patients, but more than half the time, they're...Read More »

Even after Medicare officials agreed that seniors cannot be denied...Read More »

The 2017 Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines to be published in the March 2017 issue of...Read More »

More than 359,000 providers will participate in...Read More »

Some eligible professionals (EP) and group practices will get a pass for failing to meet 2016 Physician Quality Reporting requirements (PQRS) due...Read More »

The Surviving Sepsis Campaign released new care guidelines updating its 2012 recommendations to help clinicians caring for patients with sepsis...Read More »

by Rose T. Dunn, MBA, RHIA, CPA, FACHE, FHFMA, CHPS

One of the many coder/CDI obligations is to report noncompliant activities....Read More »

Nearly every professional association provides some type of vocation-specific guidance regarding ethical behavior. Periodically such...Read More »

by Shannon Newell, RHIA, CCS

The 30-day all cause acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality outcome measure has been linked to...Read More »

Q: We are getting pressure from our othopods to send all queries to their nurse practitioner (NP). Our facility bylaws...Read More »