The effect of the meaningful use incentives and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 have been...Read More »
The concept of Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCC) is not new; CMS implemented the HCC model in 2004 as a way to determine capitated payments...Read More »
Although the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS was fairly smooth, two years later billing and coding experts say that, in most cases, the codes are not...Read More »
Which types of clinicians will get “special status” from CMS for the Quality Payment Program (QPP) data submissions this year? CMS recently...Read More »
Researchers at NYU Langone found that many informal consultations between referrers and radiologists were captured incompletely or inadequately in...Read More »
“One of the key components for a successful CDI program is the ability to review records concurrently […] Since the documentation takes place so...Read More »
