Realizing that the go-live date won’t change, some facilities already have organization-wide ICD-10 implementation strategies in place. If your...Read More »
There may be hope for hospitals carefully watching the proposed IPPS rule, praying for some amelioration of the suggested 2.9% documentation and...Read More »
The question of whether to retain queries as a permanent part of the medical record increased in importance this spring as recovery audit...Read More »
DRG (diagnosis-related groups) validation issues have been the main target of RAC (recovery audit coordinators) nationwide in recent months. When...Read More »
The Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER) includes a wealth of information regarding MS-DRG outliers that might...Read More »
Despite the inclination of many hospital administrators to mechanize documentation and abstraction of quality measures, Kristen Geissler, MS, PT,...Read More »