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By Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News Like hospitals and doctors everywhere, Banner Health fights a daily battle to get paid by insurance companies and government agencies for the care it delivers. So the hospital system hired a company called Executive Health Resources to fight back against the likes of Medicare and UnitedHealthcare when they…
By Connie S. Tohara for Computerworld When October 1, 2014 arrives, there are a number of potential disasters that await if we’re not fully prepared for the new clinical coding classification, ICD-10. Federal regulators have proposed a Fall 2014 deadline to comply, and we’re taking the initiative head-on at the University of Utah Hospitals and…
By Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media If the Affordable Care Act is fully or partially nullified by the US Supreme Court, for-profit hospital operators will face a credit-negative situation as costs increase and profit margins shrink, according to a special comment report from Moody’s Investors Service. That could be detrimental to the credit position…
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes clinical reporting standards that physicians and hospitals will use to qualify for Stage 2 Meaningful Use bonus payments. By Neil Versel, InformationWeek A month after publishing proposed rules for Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use electronic health records (EHRs) incentive program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services…
Article by Chris Dimick, Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of AHIMA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on April 18, 2011 and is republished here with permission. ICD-10-CM/PCS offers organizations better data about their patient populations and the services they provide them. The code set’s greater specificity allows coding professionals to…
By John Commins for HealthLeaders Media Expect the wave of hospital mergers and acquisitions to grow, says the author of a new report from Moody’s Investor Service. The only thing that might slow the accelerating pace of M&As of not-for-profit hospitals and health systems would be if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the individual mandate…
By Avik Roy, for Forbes Do you remember the “Louisiana Purchase?” I don’t mean Thomas Jefferson’s acquisition of land from Napoleon, but rather Democrats’ acquisition of Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D., La.) support for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for gaining $200 million additional federal funds…
HIMSS12 LAS VEGAS–From the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference, Dolbey introduced DocAssist™ Documentation Guides to help hospitals train their physicians to document patient reports according to the upcoming ICD-10 PCS requirements. “Our research found that as much as 60% of the documentation in a patient’s chart is still dictated and transcribed.…
Action Items Based on Lessons Learned By Howard Anderson for GovInfo Security What can be learned from the more than 390 major breaches affecting more than 19 million individuals that have been reported as a result of the federal HIPAA breach notification rule? Plenty, breach prevention experts say. Here are eight key breach-prevention insights from…
By Ken Terry for InformationWeek Most doctors still use desktops because iPads lack speech processing capabilities. One expert, however, says iPad EHRs are coming. Eighty percent of physicians in a recent survey said they believe that the Apple iPad has an “exciting future in healthcare”–but they doubt it is ready for clinical use. The survey…