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June 20, 2022 / By Melissa Clarke, MD
For all the wonderful advancement in health care diagnostics and therapeutics, the U.S. health care system has yet to solve for high costs of care while also improving outcomes. These […]
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June 13, 2022 / By Rhonda Butler
It happens every year around Memorial Day: The ICD-10 procedure code updates are posted on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) website just as people are thinking summer thoughts. […]
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May 25, 2022 / By Arif S. Kidwai, MD, MBA
Over the last 20 years, radiologists have been paid progressively less for reviewing the same imaging exam, while at the same time increasing reporting requirements. Radiology payment and documentation processes […]
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May 9, 2022 / By Gretchen Mills
The shift of the U.S. health care system from fee for service (FFS) to value-based care and payment now seems inevitable. To date, the transition has been relatively slow, as […]
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March 18, 2022 / By Rhonda Butler
The March ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) meeting, held via Zoom March 8 and 9, had 60 topics on the combined agenda—29 topics for proposed changes to the procedure […]
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Jan. 31, 2022 / By Chris Berg, RHIA
As a clinical documentation integrity (CDI) and coding professional, I’ve often heard the statement: If it’s not documented, it wasn’t done. I have used this statement educating physicians and nurses […]
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Jan. 20, 2022 / By Megan Carr
As I hopped on an Amtrak train to go to a meeting (something I haven’t done in a long time!), I pulled out my laptop to start reading emails – […]
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Jan. 18, 2022 / By Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, Kelli Christman
I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Global Chief Medical Officer Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, to discuss clinical and financial risk management, and risk stratification with Medicare Advantage plans. […]
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Jan. 14, 2022 / By Rhonda Butler
In December I posted a blog on the “new and improved normal,” discussing the April 1 ICD-10-CM/PCS update added to the schedule beginning in 2022. Two updates a year instead […]
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Dec. 15, 2021 / By Rhonda Butler
Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) jointly finalized a proposal to make the April 1 update of ICD-10-CM/PCS […]
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Sept. 27, 2021 / By Rhonda Butler
The latest ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) was held virtually Sept. 14-15. First on the agenda, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its final joint decision […]
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Aug. 20, 2021 / By Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, Kelli Christman
I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Global Chief Medical Officer Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, to discuss CMS’ latest guidance on Z codes, SDoH and how that will impact […]