Author: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Publication Date: November 21, 2007

This report discusses options for a plan to implement a Medicare Hospital VBP program, building on Medicare's Reporting Hospital Quality Data for Annual Payment Update Program.

Author: Tully, Melinda; Perez, Mario A. III

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2009

HIM professionals understand how critical final coding accuracy is for acute care billing and reporting—they live and breathe it every day. Yet, over the past several years the importance of coded data has extended beyond acute care.

Coding now has an impact on everything from....

Author: Tremlett, Janie

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: March 2016

Payment models in healthcare are transforming—which should be no surprise to health information management (HIM) professionals. What may come as a surprise though is how quickly these models are transforming.


Healthcare is rapidly moving to incorporate measures of value....

Author: Stearns, Michael

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2016

President Obama signed into law the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 on April 16, 2015. This legislation repealed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) but also introduced a number of provisions designed to compensate physicians and other healthcare professionals ba....

Author: Schwab, Linda

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: November 2008

The final rule for the FY 2009 hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) went into effect October 1, 2008. Although there are relatively few changes to MS-DRGs and the complication and comorbidity (CC) and major CC (MCC) lists, the final rule signals that the Centers for Medicare an....

Author: Schraffenberger, Lou Ann

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: June 2008

On October 1, 2007, hospitals began reporting secondary diagnoses that were present on admission (POA). The POA indicator can be reported as Y, present on admission; N, not present on admission; U, unknown; or W, clinically undetermined.

Beginning October 1 of this year, N and U indi....

Author: Schraffenberger, Lou Ann

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes

Publication Date: July 2008

Last October hospitals began reporting secondary diagnoses that were present on admission (POA). These indicators are reported as Y, present on admission; N, not present on admission; U, unknown; or W, clinically undetermined. Beginning October 1 of this year, N and U indicators will affect Me....

Author: Saharia, Devendra

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2016

Think back to the last time you went out for dinner and had a dreadful experience. Did you rush home and write a negative online review of the restaurant? If so, you’re not alone. More and more, restaurant patrons, home improvement customers and, yes, even patients are taking to the Inter....

Author: Roat, Lisa

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2014

Healthcare data is being touted as a means to improve population health management. It is also feeding public competitive market reporting for providers and facilities. The integrity of the clinical data being reported is essential to supporting and improving the quality of care to patien....

Author: Rhodes, Harry B.

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2017

Research dating back to the 1970s has verified the dominant influence of social, economic, and environmental determinates in the maintenance of health and well-being. Working from a set of values that focus on overall health, quality of life, and well-being, population health management en....