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Report to Congress: Plan to Implement a Medicare Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program
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.
Value-based Purchasing: What It Means for HIM Professionals
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....
Inventing the Mid-Cycle with Patient Self-Service
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....
MACRA and the Role of Clinical Data Integrity
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 This legislation repealed the sustainable growth rate (SGR) but also introduced a number of provisions designed to compensate physicians and other healthcare professionals ba....
FY 2009 Hospital IPPS Final Rule
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....
Analysis of POA and Hospital- Acquired Conditions Data, Part 1
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....
Analysis of POA and Hospital-Acquired Conditions Data: Part 2
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....
Avoiding a High-Wire Act: Balancing Cash Optimization with Patient Satisfaction
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....
Linking Quality of Care to Clinical Data Integrity
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....
Population Health Management: Proven Model Drives New Solutions
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....
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