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By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare Finance News While the healthcare industry has been much-lauded for continued job growth, adding jobs on a consistent basis, experts say that economic boost may be a double-edged sword, bolstering one of the most lamented aspects of the healthcare industry, rising costs. In a JAMA Viewpoint post, authors Jonathan…
By Terry Fletcher BS, CPC, CCC, CEMC, CCS, CCS-P, CMC, CMCSC, CMCS, ACS-CA, SCP-CA for ICD10 Monitor Physician documentation issues during an audit go beyond CDI. EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a four-part series that examines physician documentation issues as seen by an auditor. One of the services I offer, aside from coding…
By Beth Jones Sanborn for Healthcare IT News Last month, LexisNexis brought together 30 high-level executives, most of whom were CIOs from hospitals, nursing homes and health plans of all sizes from across the county to find out what data-related issues are weighing on them most as we get further into 2018. Ed Domansky, LexisNexis…
By Chuck Buck for ICD10 Monitor EDITOR’S NOTE: Opinions expressed by contributors are their own. Following the sea of knitted pink hats worn by some of the hundreds of thousands of women who took to the streets in cities across the country and around the world in January 2017 to stand up for women’s rights,…
by Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review The state where you live can significantly impact the duration of your life, suggests a new study conducted by the U.S. Burden of Disease Collaborators published in JAMA. For the study, called “The State of U.S. Health, 1990-2016 Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among U.S. States,”…
Article by Elena Miller, MPH, RHIA, CCS. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA on April 11, 2018 and is republished here with permission. Thinking back on the days when it became clear that the ICD-10 classification system was definitely going to be implemented, the Gold Rush of 1849 comes to mind. There was money…
By Jessica Kim for Becker’s Hospital Review The majority of patients who access their medical record online use it to view test results, according to an ONC data brief released this month. For the data brief, officials at the ONC analyzed the National Cancer Institute’s 2017 Health Information Trends Survey, which included information on patients’ access…
Article by Allen Frady, RN, BSN, CCS, CCDS, CRC. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA on March 29, 2018 and is republished here with permission. Is documentation improvement and proper use of ICD-10-CM critical to the nation’s healthcare debate? I say definitively yes, in every way. The bulk of the information coming from…
By Rhonda Buckholtz, CPC, COPC, CPMA, CPCI, CHPSE, CRC, CDEO, CGSC, CPEDC, CENTC by ICD10 Monitor As coders, we often struggle with assigning the correct codes. There are many gray areas in the guidelines and instructional notes, and sometimes even conflicting information can be found. This leads to frustration and miscoding, which can then lead to…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance The usability of electronic health records may be associated with some safety events in which patients were possibly harmed, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. And while the authors did not make any specific financial revelations, clinical quality has increasingly been tied…