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By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review The week before Thanksgiving provides an especially appropriate time to express gratitude. In honor of this season, Becker’s asked hospital and health system CEOs to share notes to their staff, team members and families. Michael…
By Michelle Mangino for Athena Health For those reading this ICD-10 series for the first time, you haven’t missed too much, as we just kicked it off in October. For those that did join us, I hope you were able to…
By Ron Shinkman for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: CMS on Friday issued its 2020 final rules for the Physician Fee Schedule, including a streamlining of evaluation and management services (E/M) reporting that was rolled back from an earlier proposal in…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review Massachusetts had the highest number of active female physicians in 2018, according to the 2019 State Physician Workforce Data Report. The report — published by the Association of American Medical Colleges — showed…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review With documentation queries to providers, it is important for coding professionals, clinical documentation improvement professionals and other healthcare professionals to know the most appropriate times to query, according to a post on the…
By Amy Baxter for Health Exec Older millennials are facing health challenges sooner than other generations, with higher prevalence rates for some conditions, according to a new Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Index. The index looked at the health of…
Susan Morse for Healthcare Finance Hospitals will receive $1.9 billion in value-based incentive payments for inpatient care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced yesterday. More hospitals will receive positive payment adjustments in 2020 than negative, CMS said. More…
By Maureen Kelly and Fred Wulf for For the Record In August, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the Final Rule for fiscal year 2020’s inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) and outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) code…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Uber Health is now available on Cerner’s EHR platform, allowing U.S. providers and Cerner clients to schedule non-emergency medical transportation for their patients in the ride-hailing giant’s first EHR integration. The two…
Maia Anderson from Becker’s Hospital Review A former bookkeeper of a medical supply company in Glastonbury, Conn., pleaded guilty Oct. 23 to embezzling $370,000 from the company and now faces up to 30 years in prison, according to the Hartford…