News & Analysis

April 1, 2012
Case Management Monthly

One of the riskiest times for patients comes when they are leaving the hospital and heading home or to aftercare. This is the time when medications are mixed up, follow-up doctors' appointments are missed, or discharge instructions get lost in the fax machine. Poor handoffs with poor communication can lead to unnecessary readmissions.

April 1, 2012
Case Management Monthly

Utilization review (UR) and case management are as traditional a team as peanut butter and jelly. But some facilities are asking whether this longtime duo is really the best combination.

April 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

When it comes to the scanning function, how does your facility compare to those of your peers? To help you answer that question, MRB focused its latest quarterly benchmarking survey on scanning productivity. We hope you'll find the results helpful. More than 200 survey respondents completed the 2012 survey, including:

April 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Use this quiz to test coding staff members.

April 1, 2012
Briefings on APCs

Coders and billers may not completely understand how to charge for inpatient supplies. One misconception is that the room rate incorporates all supplies used for every inpatient. Another misconception is that payers will not separately pay for inpatient supplies.

April 1, 2012
Briefings on APCs

Our coding experts answer your questions about  molecular pathology codes, HCPCS codes for drugs that aren’t separately payable under OPPS, deducting push time from infusions, CPT initial observation codes, and diabetes coding in ICD-10-CM.

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