P.T. Barnum once said, "There's a sucker born every minute." The sentiment that many people are gullible, and we can expect this to continue, has never been truer than with HIPAA compliance.
Many hospitals have added case managers to their EDs, but these case managers face unique situations. CMM experts answer questions about how to handle these issues.
Incentives posed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim Initiative and value-based purchasing emphasize treating the whole person to include preventive, medical, dental, postacute, community, mental health, and addiction services.
It's been two years since the American Health Information Management Association joined ACDIS to offer the industry physician query instructions in Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice, published in February 2013.
Last month, we laid the foundation to promote successful engagement of the coding and clinical documentation improvement teams in PSI 90 performance improvement efforts.
