CDI review teams can get bogged down and discouraged by routine. A CDI manager should be visible, positive, and combat team complancency and routine fatigue.
This month's security Q&A answers readers' questions on incidental disclosures, sending protected health information in the mail, and addressing vulnerabilities identified in a risk analysis.
It is widely accepted that multidisciplinary rounds are essential for the success of a case management department, especially in ensuring achievement of their metrics. Case management metrics have a broader scope, more so than ever before; the number of metrics, ranging from financial to quality, is growing all the time.
This week's note provides an overview of the eligibility, scope of coverage, effective dates, premiums, and cost-sharing amount policies under the four parts of Medicare. .
Most physicians are familiar with the MIPS quality models: These are the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) measures that we’ve been reporting for years with the old Medicare value-based purchasing program. What we don’t know much about are the new cost efficiency models in MIPS, which are based solely on hospital and physician ICD-10-CM/CPT claims data rather than a clinical abstraction of our medical records.
