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By Ben Harder for U.S. News U.S. News ranks the top hospitals in the nation, plus the best hospitals in each state and metro area. Somewhere in America, at a pace of about once per second, a patient checks into a hospital. With more than 33 million hospitalizations a year and so many patients on…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review The American Medical Association and UnitedHealthcare said they are collaborating to support 20 new ICD-10 codes related to social determinants of health. The codes aim to more effectively address nonmedical issues, such as food, housing, transportation and the ability to afford medicine, utilities and other services. The proposal…
By Jeff Lagasse for Healthcare Finance Many facilities seem unable to adjust expenses to coincide with declining volume, posing a fundamental risk to hospitals and health systems. June was a less-than-stellar month in terms of hospital profitability. In fact, profits declined for the first time this year, and while the difference from the same month…
By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review CMS has provided ICD-10-CM coding updates for fiscal year 2020 that include 273 additions 21 deletions and 30 revisions, according to the American Health Information Management Association. The 21 deletions for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2019, and ending Sept. 30: D813 Adenosine deaminase [ADA] deficiency H8141…
By Galyna Komives, RN, CCS, CCDS for ACDIS CDI Blog Officially, the CDI specialist’s role is to facilitate accurate, complete, and consistent clinical documentation within the health record to demonstrate the quality of the care provided and to support coding and reporting of high-quality healthcare data. In reality, “accurate, complete, and consistent clinical documentation” means multiple questions…
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…
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 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 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…