Q: One of the biggest challenges for case management directors is gaining the physician’s cooperation with documentation as they continue to face high patient volumes. What approaches should be taken to get physicians on the same page as case management directors?
This week’s Medicare updates include proposed rules for the inpatient psychiatric facility prospective payment system, skilled nursing facility prospective payment system, and the hospice payment rate update.
CMS should rescind denials recently issued to certain off-campus provider-based departments (PBD) that applied for the mid-build exception under the 21st Century Cures Act, the AHA said in a March 25 letter to CMS.
Hospitals are applying high reliability traits to drive improvement in new departments. Learn how to apply these methods to leverage CDI as a quality improvement function.
