IPPS: Planning for the Second Half of 2024

Published: Mon, 07/01/24

Updated: Thu, 07/04/24

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IPPS: Planning for the Second Half of 2024

As we begin the second half of the year, it is a convenient time to make plans and take stock of our coding operations. There will be much to do when the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule is released. For example...

Improving Patient Financial Engagement: A Tech-Driven Approach

In a landscape where patients are responsible for an ever-growing share of healthcare costs, traditional billing practices are falling short as consumers fall farther behind on their payments. Reversing this troubling trend calls for new tech-enabled billing and payment approaches that deliver personalized and increasingly digital patient financial experiences...

Simplify your clinical note templates to make them shorter, faster

Most physicians wish they could spend less time writing clinical notes. But experts say that the time and energy needed to develop or learn to use new templates can discourage adoption of changes, even if they will save time down the road. “If you could change one thing about how medical care is delivered tomorrow, what would you choose? Would spending...

CMS to Conclude CHOPD Payments: A Response to the Change Healthcare Cyberattack

CMS has announced that payments under the Accelerated and Advance Payment (AAP) Program for the Change Healthcare/Optum Payment Disruption (CHOPD) will conclude on July 12.

These payments, launched in early March, were designed to mitigate cash-flow disruptions faced by Medicare providers and suppliers, including...

New ICD-10-PCS Codes Are Here

The new ICD-10-PCS codes for the 2025 fiscal year (FY) were posted on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services website on June 6. The Version Summary reflects 371 new codes and 61 deleted codes. The table below shows the changes by section...

Simplifying value-based care is paramount to a successful transition

The US health care industry continues a predominant fee-for-service provider reimbursement model, despite trying to shift to a value-based care model for now approaching two decades. Moreover, providers continue to be consumed in a figurative avalanche of paperwork. It is a challenging system for both practitioners and patients, often delivering...

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