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By Terry Fletcher BS, CPC, CCC, CEMC, CCS, CCS-P, CMC, CMCSC, CMCS, ACS-CA, SCP-CA for ICD10 Monitor Is your Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system helping you pass an audit or hurting you? Editor’s Note: This is the third piece in a four-part series that examines physician documentation issues as seen by an auditor. Click here…
By Meg Bryant for Healthcare Dive Brief: Physicians unhappy with an EHR system could pass that sentiment on to their patients — in the form of lower patient satisfaction scores. That’s according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The researchers looked at how the installation of an ambulatory…
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. The issues are the chief complaint and HPI. Editor’s Note: This is the second piece in a four-part series that examines physician documentation issues as seen by an auditor. Click here…
By Mike Miliard for Healthcare IT News More than three-quarters of the hospitals surveyed for a new HIMSS Analytics study said that denials are the biggest challenge they face with revenue cycle management. One reason for that could be their use of multiple IT systems that don’t mesh well together with various systems looking at…
By Kristi Pollard, RHIT, CCS, CPC, CIRCC, AHIMA-Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer for ICD10 Monitor Ten strategies for avoiding burnout are provided by the author. On any given day, if you walked into my home office, you might think you were in a spa. The walls are painted a soothing aqua color (at least, I think it’s soothing),…
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…
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…