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Clinicians tended to frame skilled nursing facility (SNF) care in terms of “safety” and “rehab” while more often emphasizing the risks of other postacute care options, interviews found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/08/28/3.htm
28 Aug 2019
ARDS
Learn the diagnostic components of adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/07/coding-corner-ards.htm
15 Jul 2019
coding corner July 2019 • ACP Hospitalist 5 Adult ...
Management is primarily supportive care. Patients with the condition require positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) while mechanically ventilated or noninvasive con-tinuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). ... MCCs reflect greater severity and cost of care than CCs. In summary, ARDS is identified by a precipitating event, a characteristic chest X-ray or CT scan and severe acute respiratory
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/07/acph-201907-coding-corner-ards_t1.pdf
27 Jun 2019
HCCs explained
Hierarchical condition categories (HCCs) are used by Medicare for risk adjustment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/coding-corner-hccs-explained.htm
15 Jun 2019
coding corner 8 ACP Hospitalist • June 2019 Hierarchical ...
Developed in 2000, HCCs are part of a risk-adjustment model allowing Medicare to project the expected future annual cost of care. ... HCCs group together ICD-10 codes for related diagnoses with similar clinical complexity and expected annual costs of care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/06/acph-201906-coding-corner-hccs-explained_t1.pdf
29 May 2019
Tool for PE, heart failure drugs
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/recent-research.htm
15 May 2019
The ABCs of DRGs
Learn about the history and significance of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/coding-corner-the-abcs-of-drgs.htm
15 May 2019
CODING CORNER May 2019 • ACP Hospitalist 5 Diagnosis-related ...
In 2007, CMS adopted Medicare Severity DRGs (MS-DRGs) to better differentiate patients’ severity of illness and associated costs of care. ... A comorbidity is a condi-tion that existed before admission; a complication, in this context, is simply any condition occurring after admission, not necessarily a complication of care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/acph-201905-coding-corner-the-abcs-of-drgs_t1.pdf
27 Apr 2019
Care coordination bundle reduced total cost of care for Medicare and Medicaid patients
The intervention was also associated with decreases in the ED visit rate among Medicaid patients and a reduction in practitioner follow-up visits for both patient groups.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/11/07/3.htm
7 Nov 2018
Patient relationship category codes
Use of these code modifiers is voluntary for the time being but is expected to become mandatory in the near future.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/10/coding-corner-patient-relationship-category-codes.htm
15 Oct 2018