News & Analysis

August 1, 2010
Case Management Monthly

Recruiting, retention, and turnover are challenging in any profession. Case management is no exception. Experienced, competent case managers are especially hard to find, says Wendy De Vreugd, RB, BSN, PHN, FNP, senior director of case management for West Region at Kindred Healthcare, Hospital Division, in Westminster, CA.

August 1, 2010
Case Management Monthly

Providers give Medicare beneficiaries the advance beneficiary notice (ABN) before they undergo an outpatient procedure that Medicare will likely not cover. 

August 1, 2010
Case Management Monthly

Beatrice, 66, arrives at the long-term acute care (LTAC) hospital with end-stage renal disease (ESRD), hemodialysis, malnutrition, a stage IV coccyx decubitus ulcer, depression, and no family support. 

July 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

As physicians, we are quite aware of the severity of illness of the cancer patients we treat. However, we frequently are not cognizant of the elements of their diseases that need documentation or clarification in the medical record to accurately portray the complexity of those patients. I’d like to discuss some of the issues that surgeons, oncologists, family physicians, and pediatricians might face that need some attention in documentation.

July 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

The transition to ICD-10 is not in any way the kind of transition we made from ICD-8 to ICD-9, nor is it a simple matter of training coders and implementing a revised encoding system. This will probably be one of the biggest transitions hospitals and HIM directors and coders have seen in many years.

July 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

Medically unnecessary services and incorrectly coded items had the highest amounts of RAC overpayments collected in the demonstration project, according to CMS.

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