CMS Gives $925M Payment Boost to Post-Acute Providers
Published: Fri, 08/17/18
CMS Gives $925M Payment Boost to Post-Acute Providers CMS issued final rules July 31 that increase payments to inpatient rehabilitation facilities and…
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Are HIM Coding Professionals Qualified to Query for Clinical Validity? Part II
Published: Thu, 08/16/18
Are HIM Coding Professionals Qualified to Query for Clinical Validity? Part II I want to highlight some of the comments, opinions, and questions…
HIM Coding Professionals Told They’re Not Qualified to Query for Clinical Validity
Published: Wed, 08/15/18
HIM Coding Professionals Told They’re Not Qualified to Query for Clinical Validity For nearly a century, since Grace W. Myers of Massachusetts General…
OIG: Open Payments Program Needs to Improve Data
Published: Tue, 08/14/18
OIG: Open Payments Program Needs to Improve Data The Open Payments database needs to improve the accuracy, precision and consistency of some of its…
CMS Moves Medicare Payments for Skilled Nursing Facilities to Value
Published: Mon, 08/13/18
CMS Moves Medicare Payments for Skilled Nursing Facilities to Value CMS recently finalized a rule that will shift the Medicare payment system for…
ICD-10-CM Guidelines for 2019 are Here - These are the Changes
Published: Sat, 08/11/18
ICD-10-CM Guidelines for 2019 are Here - These are the Changes CMS and the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics released changes to the…
Ready for PDPM?
Published: Fri, 08/10/18
Ready for PDPM? It's been an open secret that the federal government has, for years, wanted to change long-term care's payment system from one…
CMS Proposed E&M Changes Would Eliminate 1995 and 1997 Guidelines
Published: Thu, 08/09/18
CMS Proposed E&M Changes Would Eliminate 1995 and 1997 Guidelines Major E&M changes on the horizon. Probably the biggest change in healthcare in two…
Preview of New ICD-11 Codes Revealed
Published: Wed, 08/08/18
Preview of New ICD-11 Codes Revealed There is a lot of buzz in the industry about the possibility of ICD-11. We are so many years from that becoming a…
2019 Official Guidelines for Coding & Reporting: Contain Significant Changes
Published: Tue, 08/07/18
2019 Official Guidelines for Coding & Reporting: Contain Significant Changes The 2019 Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting of ICD-10-CM have…