On May 7, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on the story of patient Steve Zangla, who went to Riddle Hospital in Media for sharp and distressing abdominal pain. As is the…
Senior Housing Companies, which offers assisted living services and healthcare to individuals living in retirement communities, was dependent upon manual paper processing to manage its 17 senior living communities in…
Medicare is spending more money on drugs than ever before, and it's not because patients are taking more medications. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated its drug…
The number of patients meeting criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis may drop following the proposed revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), researchers suggested. Geared towards creating…
Since October, five ASCs have reported patient data stolen, compromised or breached through cyber attacks, stolen laptops and staff misdeeds. Columbus (Neb.) Surgery Center and Eye Physicians fell victim to…
CMS filed its annual Medicare inpatient payment update April 24, which would increase payments to hospitals next year and follow through on some of the administration's top healthcare promises, including…
Some of the state’s most influential doctors’ groups are pressing the insurance commissioner to investigate a change that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas is making to its emergency…
Healthcare organizations are constantly producing and collecting medical data to help treat patients more effectively, and are also using the data for analytics purposes such as population health. Organizations need…
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) helps healthcare organizations capture meaningful data for improved quality reporting and clinician productivity. In an effort to ensure that the entire patient record is documented properly,…
The rising cost of pharmaceuticals is a concern for people in all parts of the world, leading to some to forecast the spiraling costs are unsustainable. New technologies may hold…
An early morning breakfast at the AAFP's 2018 National Conference of Constituency Leaders that was billed as an update from CMS on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) turned into something…
Nursing homes are questioning if a proposed CMS pay model could pay them less for services provided to Medicare patients. On Friday, the CMS proposed the Patient-Driven Payment Model which…
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) ensures that health services are accurately documented and helps healthcare coders and physicians work toward improved patient care while also streamlining productivity. When meaningful clinical data…
Nearly 90 percent of physician practices with six or fewer practitioners are not using optimization tools included in their electronic health record systems, according to findings in a new report…
Prior to undertaking the necessary work against this set of activities, review Parts I and II of this series. Review definitions, and give more than passing glance at the ICD-10…
(Editor’s Note: Dr. Terri Lewis has been very critical of the CDC for not requiring data collection about chronicity or context of chronic disease. She has been discussing this issue…