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By Avery Comarow and Ben Harder for U.S. News and World Report U.S. News ranks the top 20 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…
Article by Steven Robinson, MS, PA, RN, CDIP. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on April 26, 2017 and is republished here with permission. Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. —Mattie Stepanek Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) professionals have a worthy task to help identify…
By Rajiv Leventhal for healthcare informatics The agency released a final rule that also allows healthcare providers to use 2014 Edition CEHRT for another year, as hospitals will now have until 2019 to meet MU Stage 3 measures and objectives The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a final rule that affirms…
Article by Lisa A. Eramo, MA. This article was originally published on the Journal of AHIMA website on June 1, 2017 and is republished here with permission. In the months leading up to the ICD-10 go-live, many hospitals implemented computer-assisted coding (CAC) in the hopes that it would offset anticipated productivity losses and boost coding accuracy. Now…
By Thomas Dworetzky for DOTmed HealthCareBusiness Daily News The leader and his four co-defendants in a long term con in which the gang created fake “Cerner Corporation” employees to bilk investors, banks and businesses has been sentenced to prison. Albert Davis, who had pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a Kansas City U.S. District Court…
By Tom Murphy and Brandon Bailey for The Columbus Dispatch Those seemingly harmless medical forms everyone fills out before seeing a doctor can lead to identity theft if they get into the wrong hands. Names, birthdates and Social Security numbers can help hackers open fake credit lines, file false tax returns and create false medical…
Coalition says it could take 40 years until ICD-11 is ready for U.S. By Donna Marbury for Medical Economics Healthcare organizations advocating for ICD-10 continue to defend any argument against the coding system that could again delay its October 2015 implementation. The latest battle pits The Coalition for ICD-10 against those that want the United…
While everyone is affected by the proposed cuts, they are particularly painful for smaller hospitals, which have tighter margins and fewer options for dropping services or making up the losses. By John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media The Obama Administration’s 2016 budget axe takes a double whack at critical access hospitals. First, the proposal eliminates critical…
By Jennifer Bresnick for HealthIT Analytics The ICD-10 transition is a large, complex, and complicated task for the healthcare industry, but if one thing is clear about the drawn-out process, it’s that many providers are lagging behind where they should be to meet the October 1, 2015 deadline. Despite a lengthy preparation period and years…
By Erin McCann for Healthcare IT News Once again, rural hospitals rule the list The numbers are frightening: Each year, medical errors kill 400,000 Americans, more people than any other illness aside from cancer and heart disease, a chilling statistic highlighting the urgent work to be done in the realm of patient safety. In an…