Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers, a quality improvement program aimed at reducing hospitalizations and emergency department visits among nursing home patients, yielded little results, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine study.
Systemic and known cybersecurity vulnerabilities put patients' safety at risk; despite that, cybersecurity gets little support from the C-suite, a federal task force found.
Q: Our team had a recent case that involved a small midline episiotomy which extended to a second-degree laceration which was repaired with 3-0 vicryl rapide sutures. Would we code the episiotomy and repair or just the repair, and why? We are considering ICD-10-PCS code 0KQM0ZZ (Repair of the perineum muscle, open approach) and/or 0W8NXZZ (Division of the female perineum, external approach).
CMS is thinking about scaling back its Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement model, a program that aimed to reduce costs related to the most common inpatient surgery for Medicare beneficiaries: hip and knee replacements.
