News & Analysis

May 11, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week's note discusses 2017 CPT® codes for moderate sedation.

May 10, 2017
HIM Briefings

Regulatory compliance reforms have forced CMS to set the bar high for meeting evaluation and management (E/M) standards. This is especially true for clinical documentation improvement (CDI) performance for coding and billing level four and five patient visits in outpatient settings.

May 8, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include the April 2017 Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter, scribe services signature requirements, outlier limitation on OPPS Community Mental Health Centers Services, and more!

May 2, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week's note discusses rural health clinic off-site services that are provided to swing bed patients.

May 2, 2017
Medicare Insider

This week’s Medicare updates include a MIPS Participation Status Letter, FY 2018 proposed rules for skilled nursing facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities, and more!

April 26, 2017
HIM Briefings

Effective July 2016, as part of The Joint Commission’s Project REFRESH, the Medical Record Statistics form was retired for hospital accreditation surveys. Is it still important to monitor our medical records for presence, timeliness, legibility (paper or printed), accuracy, authentication, and completeness?

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