The Healthcare Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The components of this transformation include a much greater use of CNMs for normal pregnancies, who provide far more pre- and post-natal care, and who have demonstrable effects on early inductions of labor, c-section rates, and downstream rates of NICU admissions. This is not a picayune academic point.

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EvidenceCare

JUNE 11, 2024

This can involve optimizing care plans for specific DRGs, which can lead to reduced lengths of stay and improved quality of care. Early in the stay – sometimes within minutes of the admission – we assign a “working DRG” to the encounter. This can lead to more efficient use of staff, equipment, and beds.

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The Healthcare Blog

MAY 6, 2024

The diet is associated with many complications that often lead to hospital admissions for dehydration, electrolyte disturbances, and hypoglycemia. While a keto diet may help people lose weight in the short term, studies show that weight loss is rarely sustained over the long run and may be detrimental to overhaul health.

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Relias

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Under the new CoPs, if therapy services establish home health eligibility, OT is included in the care plan, and no skilled nursing care is designated, the start of care visit can be done by an OT instead of having to wait for a nurse, PT, or SLP to be available.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 5, 2023

Inappropriate procedures, costly admissions, and unnecessary downstream testing stemmed from incidental findings and unimportant lab abnormalities, many of which originated from a primary care office. Navigating uncertainty with an appropriately calibrated set point is the mark of a skilled primary care physician.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient. Fraudulent Coding or Overreporting. “We

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Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient. Fraudulent Coding or Overreporting. “We

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Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The positive finding in this research is that one-third of people dealing with at least one chronic condition sought health care through virtual means, telehealth, in the pandemic.

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Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

By doing so, you create an environment where the team can develop care plans that improve healing rates and lower incidence rates. When even one nurse becomes a specialist in wound care , that informed clinician can spread specialized knowledge throughout the care team.

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The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The compliance date for the CMS rule was July 1, 2021. The final interoperability and information blocking rules do not amend HIPAA or the HITECH Act, although they are related.

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