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By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review The 11th edition of the International Classification of Diseases was presented at the World Health Assembly in May and is slated to take effect in January 2022. To prepare for the transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11, softwareadvice.com recommended that healthcare providers: Become familiar with new ICD-11 codes and chapters,…
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 Emma Newburger for CNBC If you’re job hunting in certain high-growth fields, you’re not just in luck — you’re in demand. A shortage of skilled workers in some fields is leading to stiff competition as companies hunt for talent. To help workers understand what they’re worth, staffing firm Randstad US recently compiled a special…
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 Sharon Hoffman for Philly Voice A career as a physician has traditionally been considered to be among the best vocations that talented students can pursue. That may no longer be the case. All too many doctors report that they are unhappy, frustrated and even prepared to leave the profession. That should worry all of…
By John Commins for Health Leaders KEY TAKEAWAYS Diagnostic errors that led to death or permanent disability were linked with misdiagnosed cancers (37.8%), vascular events (22.8%) and infections (13.5%) — which led the researchers to refer to them as the ‘big three.’ Half of the most-severe harm cases ended in patient death and the other…
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 Nick Paul Taylor for Healthcare Dive Dive Brief: More than two-thirds of healthcare executives think artificial intelligence and other emerging digital technologies will extensively impact their organizations over the next three years. The new Accenture survey suggests executives will expand quickly beyond the experiments that make up most of the engagement with new digital…