As with many other physicians of a certain age, I have had the opportunity to practice patient care in both the worlds of paper and electronic charting. Granted, as a…
A recent study from the healthcare solutions company Premier indicated that $19.7 billion is what hospitals and health systems are spending annually on handling and appealing denials. Yes, that is…
Troves of data flow through the healthcare revenue cycle. Yet, many providers struggle to make sense of the codes and clinical documentation to not only submit clean claims but also…
While some have said medical coding sits quietly in the middle of the healthcare revenue cycle, it is a key step that, when done inadequately, can impact each part of…
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,…
Most hospitals gained at least $1.5 million in healthcare revenue after clinical documentation improvement implementation, a Black Book survey found. Nearly 90 percent of hospitals with 150 or more beds…
Q: Much to our surprise, the transition to ICD-10 continues to go relatively smoothly. Our organization has had minimal denials and delays in cash flow. Is our experience unique, or…
Poor documentation, decrease in productivity among main ICD-10 challenges thus far. Leading up to the healthcare industry’s transition to the ICD-10 coding set on Oct. 1, 2015, there seemed to…
In October 2013, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) launched its clinical go-live of ICD-10 with a focus on data-driven priority setting and physician engagement. An external audit of…
Physician groups, hospitals and coding support companies have been gearing up to address the many changes required to meet the challenges of the upcoming conversion to ICD-10-CM/PCS.
It's understandable if healthcare providers consider ICD-10 implementation a lost cause. The latest delay shows how easy it is to derail a major healthcare policy initiative. So why bother? Terrance…
It is only two years until the compliance date for the ICD-10 code sets and yet not enough hospitals have yet begun readiness assessments and impact analyses, said Jim Jacobs,…
Wrap your brain around using letters in your diagnosis codes.
If you aren’t curious about how the ICD-9 codes crosswalk to ICD-10, maybe you should be.
“The transition date for ICD-10 codes is Oct 1, 2013,” stressed CMS’s Stewart Streimer...