Quality & Regulatory

As Medicare continues to incentivize high care value, rather...Read More »

by Cheryl Ericson, RN, MS, CCDS, CDIP and Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS

Clinical validation is a process in which diagnoses...Read More »

A recent coding productivity survey conducted by ACDIS’ parent company, HCPro, had some positive findings:

• Under ICD-9, the average
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Improper Medicare payments have fallen to their lowest level since 2010 due to “aggressive program integrity measures,” according to CMS. The...Read More »

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that antibiotic-resistant (AR) bacteria and fungi cause more than 2.8...Read More »

CMS’ recently released final rule on hospital price transparency which allows the agency to impose civil monetary penalties for those that fail to...Read More »

The third character of a procedure code is represented by the root operation. Definitions for the root operations are located in Appendix A and...Read More »

The declining rate of some hospital-acquired conditions was not because of the penalty-driven Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Reduction Program...Read More »

A new report from the National Academy of Medicine says that between one-third and one-half of U.S. clinicians experience burnout, ...Read More »