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By Angie Stewart for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS posted changes to the ICD-10-CM codes for fiscal year 2020. Five key points: There were 71,932 ICD-10-CM codes for fiscal year 2019. The update includes 72,184 codes. CMS added 273 codes, deleted 21 codes and made 30 revisions to codes pertaining to various treatments. Additions included codes related to orbital wall…
Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review As healthcare becomes increasingly corporatized, administrators lean on the good faith of clinicians to get the job done — and they may be leaning too hard, according to an op-ed published in The New York Times by Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, an attending physician at Bellevue Hospital in New…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Healthcare has less gender disparity than other U.S. industries, but still has room for improvement at executive levels. A new McKinsey report found healthcare is one of the best industries for working women in several dimensions. Women are better represented at all levels than in other sectors,…
The Journal of AHIMA published an article in the June 2019 issue called “Computer-Assisted Coding Reality Check” by Mary Butler. The article takes a closer look at the impact of Computer Assisted- Coding (CAC) by examining studies, interviewing HIM professionals and Dolbey’s Product Manager, Heather Eminger-Gladden, CCS. What is CAC? How does Computer- Assisted Coding…
By Alia Paavola for Becker’s Hospital Review Across the nation’s more than 6,000 hospitals, chief executives made an average annual salary of $242,550, compared to phlebotomists, who made an average of $34,750 per year, according to Business Insider. Here is the average annual salary of 30 key hospital jobs, presented in ascending order of compensation:…
By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review Thirty-two healthcare CEOs made The New York Times and Equilar’s 2018 ranking of highest-paid CEOs in 2018. Of those 32, three executives led some of the nation’s largest for-profit hospital systems: King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare. The full…
By Selena Chavis for For the Record An industry collaboration recently proposed codes designed to better support whole-person care. There’s a new buzz phrase taking health care by storm: social determinants of health (SDOH). Linked by researchers to approximately 80% of overall health, SDOH are defined by Healthy People 2020 as the “conditions in the…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: Physician burnout costs the healthcare industry between $2.6 billion and $6.3 billion each year, according to a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The researchers calculated a baseline of about $4.6 billion in costs from turnover, reduced productivity and other burnout-related factors. The study…
By Rebecca Pifer for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: A CMS innovation center demonstration that pairs payment incentives with a home-based primary care delivery model showed mixed results in terms of Medicare cost savings for chronically ill beneficiaries, according to data from the first four years of the test. The reward payment structure had some success…
By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review More physicians (44 percent) believe that EHRs have hurt quality of care in their workplace than the 40 percent who said the technology has improved it, according to a recent Medscape poll released May 1. Medscape surveyed 273 U.S. clinicians — 207 physicians and 66 nurses and advanced practice…