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By Steff Deschenesfor for HealthcareFinance News There are plenty of unknowns concerning the financial aspects of ICD-10. Transitioning to the new codes could be a disaster for some providers. However, those who take into careful consideration their current clinical documentation and coding shortfalls and adjust them for ICD-10 specificity could see an entirely different outcome.…
By Scott Mace for HealthLeaders Media When the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced in April that the required go-live rollout of ICD-10 coding would be delayed one year, to October 1, 2014, healthcare providers reacted with sighs of relief, jubilation, disappointment, or stoic determination to stay the course—and occasionally, combinations of the four.…
By Jordan Rau, Shots, NPR’s Health Blog The cities of New York and Los Angeles grade their restaurants on cleanliness and the precautions they take to avoid making customers sick. Now hospitals are getting similar assessments for their patient safety records from the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit that’s looking to improve the quality and safety…
By Nina Bernstein for NY Times Giant aquariums now soothe pediatric patients at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. It has added welcome signs in 10 languages, a state-of-the-art cardiac operating room and programs to keep chronically ill adults safely at home. But as Pamela S. Brier, the chief executive, was walking to the main entrance…
By Steve Teske for Bloomberg BNA Spending on federal health care programs will grow from more than 5 percent of gross domestic product today to nearly 10 percent in 2037, according to a report issued June 5 by the Congressional Budget Office. National health care spending also will continue to rise, CBO said in the…
Organizations join forces to help hospitals prepare for the challenges of ICD-10 CONDORD, OH and HUNTINGDON VALLEY, PA – Dolbey, a leader in dictation, transcription, speech recognition and coding solutions for healthcare, and Alpha Systems, a premier provider of electronic patient chart management solutions, announced a strategic alliance partnership to integrate Alpha System’s data and…
From Healthcare IT News CHICAGO – AHIMA has said it before, and it is saying it again. Delaying ICD-10 deadlines is not a good idea. AHIMA filed a comment letter Wednesday with the Department of Health and Human Services’ leaders in response to a section of a proposed rule that addresses “Change to the Compliance…
From Healthcare IT News ANA ARBOR, MI – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) on Wednesday submitted comments on ICD-10 proposed rulemaking to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. CHIME urged HHS to remain committed to ICD-10, while calling the one-year delay an appropriate “middle ground” for all stakeholders. “A longer delay…
From Modern Healthcare Last week, the American Medical Association sent a letter to acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner asking the federal government to further delay the compliance date for the transition to ICD-10 code sets to Oct. 1, 2015, Modern Healthcare reports (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 5/11). Background U.S. health care organizations are working to transition…
By Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News Like hospitals and doctors everywhere, Banner Health fights a daily battle to get paid by insurance companies and government agencies for the care it delivers. So the hospital system hired a company called Executive Health Resources to fight back against the likes of Medicare and UnitedHealthcare when they…