CMS has reinstated the short-stay reviews and high-weighted DRG reviews originally halted in 2019. The national contract to conduct these reviews was awarded to Livanta, one of the Beneficiary & Family-Centered Care and Quality Improvement Organizations.
As the country sees a resurgence of COVID-19 thanks to the delta variant, hospitals are seeing an increase not only in their immediate census numbers, but also in the number of readmissions.
HHS recently issued its Summer 2021 OCR Cybersecurity Newsletter, covering the topic of controlling access to ePHI. HHS officials cited a Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations report that found 61% of analyzed data breaches in the healthcare sector were perpetrated by external threat actors and 39% were carried out by insiders.
Anna, a case manager who practices in a pulmonologist’s office, manages adult high-risk asthmatic patient care. The office serves more than 2,000 patients, which Anna learns is the upper range of average. She recently learned that the American Association for Physician Leadership believes that a physician’s office can successfully handle a volume of 3,000 patients.
Review proposed updates to the CPT set for 2022, including new codes for chronic care management, laser interstitial thermal therapy, spinal anesthesia, and more.
This week's note from the instructor delves into how recent OIG hospital audits can be used as guides for self-monitoring via internal audits and quality reviews.
