Quality & Regulatory

The 30-day hospital readmission rate for stroke patients declined by an annual average of 3.3% from 2010 to 2014,...Read More »

Certain decision support alerts built into hospital EHR systems can lower costs, readmissions, and complications for patients, according to a new...Read More »

By Brian Murphy

The end of last week brought news of a lawsuit that appears to have broad and deep ramifications for the CDI...Read More »

By Laurie L. Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC, and Sharme Brodie, RN, CCDS

The inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS)...Read More »

A couple weeks after CMS unfroze risk-adjustment payments...Read More »

For the third consecutive year, Mayo Clinic tops the Honor Roll of the U.S. News & World Report list of the nation’s top hospitals.Read More »

Prime Healthcare in Ontario, California, and its founder and CEO, Dr. Prem Reddy, have agreed to pay $65 million to end a lawsuit alleging the...Read More »

Only months after eClinicalWorks was sued for nearly $...Read More »

Last week CMS reversed that decision and...Read More »

CMS’ 2019 OPPS proposed rule continues the agency’s...Read More »