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By Andria Jacobs, RN, MS, CEN, CPHQ for AJMC Andria Jacobs, RN, MS, CEN, CPHQ, chief operating officer for PCG Software, discusses 3 billing and claims issues facing the health care industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Rightfully…
Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review In its proposed Physician Fee Schedule for 2021, CMS outlined changes to how office and outpatient evaluation and management visits will be coded. Four things to know: 1. CMS proposed a refinement to clarify the…
Jackie Drees by Becker’s Hospital Review Hospitals and clinics continued to rack up the highest average data breach costs in 2020 at $7.13 million, up 10 percent since last year, according to IBM Security’s July 29 report. For the IBM Security-sponsored…
By Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS published 11 Current Procedural Terminology Category III codes that took effect July 1 in the ASC payment system. The agency also made updated payment rates available for download. The new codes: 0594T. Humerus osteotomy with insertion…
By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding, and synthesizing many puzzle pieces…
By Lauran Neergaard for AP News Who gets to be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine? U.S. health authorities hope by late next month to have some draft guidance on how to ration initial doses, but it’s a vexing…
By Scott E. Rupp for For the Record Take the long view and—despite recent job losses—coding remains a strong career path. So far, the first year of the second decade of the 21st century has brought a lot of uncertainty—to…
By Anuja Vaidya for Becker’s Hospital Review West Virginia had the highest percentage of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression in the last week of June, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation. The data is from the Household Pulse…
By Alba Kuqi, MD, CICA, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, CRCR, CSMC for ACDIS CDI Blog In their review of the medical record, CDI professionals aim to reconstruct the patient story from admission to discharge by examining, understanding, and synthesizing many puzzle pieces…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Finding, accessing, and paying for healthcare in America requires so much work that half of consumers have avoided seeking care altogether, a new survey has found. More than two-thirds of consumers said every step…