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By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: For the first time in more than a year, CMS updated its hospital star ratings. The agency collects the data from its Hospital Quality Initiative programs and the public can view the star ratings on the Hospital Compare website. The American Hospital Association, which has requested a complete termination of the star…
By Angie Stewart for Becker’s ASC Review The World Health Organization’s fully-electronic 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases contains 55,000 codes, compared to the 14,400 in ICD-10, Medscape reports. Thirty-one countries played a role in field testing ICD-11. Here are five takeaways and quotes from WHO’s press briefing announcing the launch: 1. ICD-11…
By Les Masterson for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Hospitals acquired 8,000 medical practices and 14,000 physicians left private practice and entered into employment arrangements with hospitals between July 2016 and January 2018, according to a new report by Avalere Health and the Physicians Advisory Institute (PAI). The number of hospital-acquired physician practices grew from 35,700…
By Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog What is clinical validation and why is it important right now? The following quote from the June 2014 edition of Perspectives on Health Information Management sums it up in a nutshell: “Documentation is an important aspect of medical care. In addition to clinical communication,…
By Healthgrades Media Staff for Healthgrades Media This year is the first time two awards have been consolidated into a single list that includes the top 250, 100, and 50 hospitals. Healthgrades released its annual list Tuesday of “America’s Best Hospitals,” using clinical outcomes to identify the top 5% of hospitals nationwide. In years past,…
By Chris Casto Many healthcare organizations implemented computer-assisted coding (CAC) to supplement coding operations. The use of natural language processing to pre-read patient charts to suggest ICD-10-CM-PCS and CPT codes to the coding staff resulted in higher productivity, greater accuracy or both. Using machine learning and artificial intelligence, some organizations have moved beyond code suggestions…
By Mackenzie Garrity for Becker’s Hospital Review Piles of patient records were found burning in a dumpster across the street from Atlanta-based Southside Medical Clinic, according to WSBTV. Southside Medical Clinic is unsure how hundreds of patients’ medical records were found burning in the dumpster and stacked outside in shipping crates. A WSBTV representative who…
By David Lim and Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive For one week in sunny Orlando, Florida, more than 43,000 health IT professionals converged in the mammoth Orange Country Convention Center to showcase technological innovations, argue about interoperability, network and pour creativity into their #HealthPolicyValentines tweets. Health IT’s biggest conference of the year ended Friday. As the…
By Cathy Farraher, RN, MBA, CCM, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog A typical day for a CDI specialist entails obtaining an assignment, whether it’s all payer or Medicare only, and determining the action course for the day. Best practice would be to perform follow ups on any previously queried charts to allow clinicians to have…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review Medical coding is a key component of revenue cycle management. When done efficiently and accurately, it helps ensure hospitals are properly reimbursed for the services they provide. Here are 15 things to know about medical coding: AAPC, formerly known as the American Academy of Professional Coders, describes medical coding as “the…