When it comes to case review, knowing where to focus leads to a sustainable impact.
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May 15th, 2017 / By Camille Ruiz, RHIA
May is Mental Health month. It is a reminder to revisit outpatient CDI for substance disorders and mental health disorders. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) statistics indicate […]
May 10th, 2017 / By Cheryl Manchenton, RN
Is your CDI program in a rut? Has your performance plateaued or even diminished? Maybe your program has a case of the “same-ole-itis,” otherwise known as “the way we have always done it” disease. In the words of the song from the musical Auntie Mame,* “Open a new window, open a new door!”
With Cheryl Manchenton, RN
Driving quality outcomes requires a coordinated effort between HIM, CDI, Quality and Compliance departments. Does your organization have a plan?
To raise the bar on performance, University of Utah Health Care analyzed and transformed high-quality data into actionable intelligence.
Complete and accurate documentation is critical to improving key performance indicators for both hospitals and physicians. 3M’s Dr. Michael Powell outlines four essential components of a successful CDI initiative.
March 6th, 2017 / By Cheryl Manchenton, RN
I have found that the best topics for my blog are those that I care most passionately about (see “Collaborating with Kindness” as an example). As I thought about this […]
February 20th, 2017 / By Kristine Daynes
Shifting from volume-driven to value-based healthcare wouldn’t be so difficult if value meant just one thing. But every payer and value-based program defines value to suit its own purposes—on good […]
February 17th, 2017 / By Barbara Aubry, RN
Last year I wrote a blog about the new Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice or MOON, the latest in the CMS library of Beneficiary Notices. A lot of folks thought no […]
February 10th, 2017 / By Rebecca Caux-Harry
I paraphrase, but this is essentially the question we hear from providers when we talk about ICD-10 coding accuracy.
February 6th, 2017 / By Donna Smith, RHIA, Sue Belley, RHIA
Donna: Hey Sue, have you read the WEDI document on the 2016 ICD-10-CM Clinical Indicators? This is another opinion on Guideline 19, which was published in the 2017 “ICD-10-CM Official […]
What are hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) and what role do they play in value-based reimbursement? Find out in our latest white paper.
