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By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review When it comes to preferred passwords among healthcare industry employees, many are choosing weak options that can make their employer hospital or health system organization vulnerable to cyberattacks, according to an April 20 NordPass report. For its analysis, NordPass, a password manager for B2B and B2C clients, partnered…
By Ben Howard for Med City News This year ushered in many changes affecting reimbursement for healthcare providers, but few are as important as the new Physician Fee Schedule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the updated coding guidelines for Evaluation and Management (E/M) services from the American Medical Association. For…
By Mackenzie Bean for Becker’s Hospital Review The care bundle CMS implemented in 2015 to improve outcomes for sepsis patients did not lead to significant improvements at Pittsburgh-based UPMC, according to a Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine analyzed EHR data from 54,224 visits of adult patients at 11…
By Cynthia Raymond, RN, MSN, CPC, COC, CCDS, ACM-RN for ACDIS CDI Blog CDI specialist’s work can often be tapered down to two categories of work. One category is concurrent stay reviews where CDI makes efforts to ensure that the medical record is accurate and compliant before final coding. The second category of work is…
By Maia Anderson for Becker’s Hospital Review Both CVS and Walgreens are now offering COVID-19 tests over-the-counter. CVS said April 19 it is offering three types of tests in stores and online — the Ellume COVID-19 home test, Abbott’s BinaxNOW COVID-19 antigen self-test, and Labcorp’s Pixel PCR test home collection kit. All three tests are available without…