Search results for "Reimbursement"
Whose documentation counts?
Understanding whose documentation can actually be used for inpatient coding purposes is often a source of confusion and controversy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/11/coding.htm
15 Nov 2011
Striving for 100% customer satisfaction
Striving for 100% customer satisfaction As patient satisfaction figures more prominently in health care and quality measurement, some worry that hospitals' standard patient satisfaction surveys don’t accurately measure hospitalist care. How should hospitalists prepare for future use of satisfaction data?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/07/cover.htm
15 Jul 2008
ACP President: SGR repeal “extraordinary and historic”
On April 16, President Obama signed a bill repealing Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and transitioning to a new value-based payment system.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/04/22/1.htm
22 Apr 2015
Is it observation or inpatient?
The question of “observation or inpatient” has perplexed hospital physicians for some time, but it's recently acquired greater financial significance. Recovery audit contractors paid by Medicare will be looking at hospitals' one-day admissions to determine whether patients were appropriately admitted or should have been under observation status.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2009/11/observation.htm
15 Nov 2009
Documentation and coding challenges with COPD
Learn more about one of the most frequent reasons for inpatient admission.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/05/coding-copd-documentation-part-1.htm
15 May 2017
Community paramedics treating heart failure
Cardiologists and paramedics collaborated to keep some patients out of the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/20/community-paramedics-treating-heart-failure.htm
20 Sep 2023
How to launch a bedside procedure service
Hospitalist-led services can increase efficiency and safety.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/06/bedside-procedure-service.htm
15 Jun 2015
Low-risk chest pain patients unlikely to have cardiac events during hospitalization
Patients who were admitted for chest pain but had negative serial biomarker results had very few adverse cardiac events during hospitalization, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2015/05/20/1.htm
20 May 2015
EHRs: Don't forget to edit
Problems arise when physicians ##ldquo;copy forward##rdquo; information from a patient's previous visit but fail to review and update what they've copied.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2013/04/ehr.htm
15 Apr 2013
Criteria describe appropriate use of cardiac cath
New criteria provide guidance on when cardiac catheterization is appropriate to evaluate patients for heart disease.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2012/05/16/3.htm
16 May 2012