This week’s updates include a notice of proposed rulemaking for bundled payment models for high-quality, coordinated cardiac and hip fracture care; FY 2017 rate update for inpatient psychiatric facilities PPS; and more!
CMS recently released the 2017 ICD-10-PCS code updates and guidelines, which include changes to certain root operations. Of the updates, the most notable modifications are the addition of root operation Perfusion, and edits to the current definitions of Control and Creation.
The majority of patients who visit hospital emergency departments for chest pain do not have a life-threatening condition, according to a recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine.
What do you do with a patient who does not have a safe discharge plan, but does not meet inpatient criteria and has been in observation status for 48 hours?
