This week's Medicare updates include an update to the Revisions to the Inpatient Prospective Payment System; Prospective Payment System (PPS) and Consolidated Billing for Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) for 2018; Provider-Based (PB) Determination; and more!
Hiring remote CDI specialists can help ease staffing shortages and improve efficiency. But starting or expanding a remote CDI program takes planning and preparation to be successful.
The Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis recently presented to President Donald Trump an interim report with recommendations for combatting opioid abuse. The commission was convened this year through an executive order from Trump in response to the opioid epidemic in America.
Poor cybersecurity in the healthcare industry amounts to a public health concern, according to the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force, a federal task force established to fulfill requirements of the Cybersecurity Act of 2015.
Q: We are currently coding a chart for an acute kidney injury which has the baseline serum creatinine and urine output missing from the chart. Is there something we can do before we have to query the physician?
