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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…
By Laura Lovett for Healthcare IT News HIMSS on Tuesday unveiled the recipients of its HIMSS 2019 Most Influential Women in Health IT Award, including a diverse list of industry players representing Silicon Valley tech giants to major hospitals and academia to the public sector. This year’s awards honor women for their accomplishments advancing and…
By Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review Most healthcare executives believe burnout is negatively impacting their organization and don’t think enough is being done about it, according to a Witt/Kieffer survey. Witt/Kieffer surveyed nearly 350 healthcare executives to evaluate how burnout affects healthcare leader retainment and advancement. Key findings: Overall, 79 percent of respondents said…
By Meg Bryant for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Confidence among the country’s hospital CFOs is low, with just 13% saying their organization is “very prepared” to handle new healthcare payment and delivery models with current financial planning tools, according to Kaufman Hall’s 2019 CFO Outlook: Healthcare report. That’s down from 15% in 2018. Less than a quarter of…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance By the end of the year, there were about 16 million people working in healthcare — about 11 percent of all jobs in the overall economy. A lot of jobs were created in the U.S. in 2018, and healthcare accounted for 346,000 of them, for an average of 29,000…
By Tracy Boldt, RN, BSN, CCDS, CDIP, and Ellen Jantzer, RN, MSN, CCDS, CCS, CRC for ACDIS CDI Blog If your organization has an inpatient CDI team, decide if outpatient CDI will share the same reporting structure or if the teams should be separate. A shared reporting structure can allow the new outpatient CDI specialists…
By Susan Moore for Healthcare IT News HHS Secretary Alex Azar joins the roster, which also features Aneesh Chopra, Karen DeSalvo, Michael Levitt, Mick Ebeling, Seema Verma and Susan Devore. HIMSS on Thursday finalized the lineup of keynote speakers for HIMSS19 in Orlando next month. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is the latest…
By John Verhovshek, MA, CPC for For the Record A “shared” or “split” patient visit occurs when both a physician and a qualified nonphysician practitioner (NPP) meet face to face with a Medicare patient on the same date of service. In other words, the work of the physician and the NPP are “combined” into a single…
By Jessica Kim Cohen for Becker’s Hospital Review Physician burnout is a public health issue that “urgently demands action” from the rest of the healthcare industry, according to a report from Harvard University and Massachusetts trade groups. The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Harvard Global Health Institute in Cambridge, Mass., Massachusetts…
By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review Below are the adjusted expenses per inpatient day in 2016, organized by hospital ownership type, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to the latest statistics from Kaiser State Health Facts. These figures, which are based on information from the 2016 American Hospital Association Annual…