This week’s Medicare updates include the January 2018 edition of the Medicare Quarterly Compliance Newsletter, an update to the OIG work plan, the 2018 Value Modifier results, and more!
At Grady Health System in Atlanta, monitoring key performance indicators (KPI) always comes back to the foundation KPI: hospital late charges. The timing of posting charges has a ripple effect. The longer you wait to post a charge, the more likely it is you will miss something.
The main dilemma for the boardroom and the frontline case management professionals is they do not warm up to “models.” In fact, models are looked at with skepticism, and if they are being evaluated, models are looked at as warnings about more work to come. Looking at the patient/family level of care, every patient and family should receive the following services from case management.
Everyone is familiar with the words “privacy” and “security,” but what do these terms mean to the experts, and what is the relationship between privacy and security?
