Sensible Medicine

MAY 22, 2023

Another name for this is advance care planning. It includes a) clarifying a patient’s understanding of their illness and its treatments, b) understanding their goals of care and c) learning what is important to them. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. After time-consuming phone calls, staff found out why: The health plans were downcoding the diagnosis-related group (DRG).

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Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Coding and clinical documentation have never been more important in healthcare. “We You’ll need ongoing training for your staff to improve your clinical documentation and avoid the following coding disasters. After time-consuming phone calls, staff found out why: The health plans were downcoding the diagnosis-related group (DRG).

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Scrubs

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In a hospital setting, nurses must be prepared for emergencies that can disrupt their carefully planned schedules. Nurses often have to care for multiple patients simultaneously, each with their unique needs and treatments. This can make it difficult to allocate time effectively and ensure that each patient receives the care they need.

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EvidenceCare

JUNE 11, 2024

Note: CMS documents how each ICD-10 code can be either a CC or MCC here. While many doctors naturally believe their patients require the highest level of care, DRGs provide an objective assessment. Documentation is crucial for assigning the correct DRG and, consequently, a realistic SOI score.

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Valant

MAY 2, 2024

These include increased productivity, reduced paperwork, accurate documentation , and enhanced data security. By leveraging technology, clinicians can deliver better patient care and optimize their financial performance. The key is to understand the benefits it offers to the practice.

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Valant

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Key Improvements Implemented in 2024: Custom form builder allowing you to create and customize consent forms and documents tailored to your practices needs New, tailored treatment plan templates for specific payer requirements and modalities and improved treatment plan workflows to streamline your documentation and track patient progress in real time (..)

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The Healthcare Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The potential overall cost savings and improvement in post-natal outcomes associated with such a reduction are well-documented and would be staggering. This is not a picayune academic point.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

MARCH 15, 2022

This case caught our attention because of its potential impact on plan design and plan administration of its mental health and substance use disorder (collectively “behavioral health”) benefits. Judge Block’s statement is particularly significant in light of health plans’ use of internally developed medical necessity criteria.

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Minority Nurse

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In nursing school, you studied and read like a madperson, wrote care plans (sorry to bring that up), learned to apply the nursing process (you may be sorry I brought that up), and turned your non-nurses mind into a nurse’s mind.

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Valant

OCTOBER 6, 2024

By providing practitioners with pre-written, customizable content, the planners make it possible to reduce time spent on documentation , allowing for more focus on direct patient care. The standardized approach promotes continuity of care even when multiple providers are involved.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

You can provide consistent care if you have accurate documentation of your patient’s care at the hospital. Care planning starts with an assessment and documentation of the wound. Diagnosing wounds correctly is critical for the best patient outcomes and accurate documentation for reimbursement purposes.

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Relias

MAY 13, 2024

Every facility should have a detailed shoulder dystocia nursing management and care plan in place to help nurses perform these duties successfully.

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Relias

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Hospices should also be concerned about care coordination. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is ramping up survey scrutiny for hospice this year, training surveyors to focus on interdisciplinary group care planning and coordination of care as part of an emphasis on meeting four core Conditions of Participation.

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Valant

APRIL 1, 2024

An EHR migration can sometimes turn into a nightmare despite careful planning. The transition from one electronic health record (EHR) system to another can be fraught with challenges, leading to disruptions in workflow, productivity, and patient care.

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Relias

APRIL 18, 2022

Promoting a culture of knowledge and awareness of current standards of wound care. Providing consistent, evidence-based care and thorough documentation. Avoiding penalties and legal risks that go along with inaccurate assessments, incomplete documentation, and preventable pressure injuries. Minimize Risk and Liability.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

JANUARY 20, 2025

By using Success, Effort, Emotion, and Trust (SEET) as measurements for every PX processfrom appointment setting to care plans to paymentsthe healthcare community can expand its potential for providing excellent care. No touchpoint is too small for inclusion.

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Medical Advantage

JULY 17, 2024

Enhanced Patient Outcomes With access to a better organized and up-to-date health history, clinicians can tailor care plans to each patient’s unique needs, leading to better health outcomes. Continuous monitoring and updating of treatment plans ensure that patients receive the most appropriate and effective care.

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Medical Advantage

MARCH 28, 2024

Healthcare providers can help by educating patients on how to interpret these documents so that patients are fully aware of their financial responsibilities and can make better informed healthcare planning decisions. Explanation of Benefits (EOB): Understanding an EOB can be complex due to medical codes and insurance jargon.

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Relias

JUNE 23, 2022

Because your organization’s hiring practices are the first step toward improving your organization’s diversity, make sure to to carefully plan out and document these processes for fairness and inclusion. One policy to make explicit is prohibiting nepotism or favoritism in hiring. Watch for Unconscious Bias and Tokenism.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By incorporating care coordination practices such as risk assessment, care planning, care transitions, patient education, patient navigation, telehealth, and home visits, care coordination teams can bring in resources to help patients navigate health concerns that span physical, behavioral, and social risk factors and needs.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Unfortunately, many primary care professionals don’t anticipate that dementia will become a terminal condition and don’t start the process of advance care planning early in the disease trajectory. For instance, what are the plans for nutrition when the person with dementia has difficulties eating or drinking?

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We Care Online

MAY 1, 2024

We will delve in to the complex and sensitive decisions faced by healthcare professionals as they strive to provide compassionate and dignified care to their residents. Preserving Dignity: Offering residents options for personalized care plans, respecting their wishes for pain management, comfort measures, and spiritual support.

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Arkenea

APRIL 8, 2025

Why It Matters Enhanced Patient Care: Continuous, accurate data from integrated devices empowers clinicians to detect early warning signs, adjust treatments on the fly, and deliver personalized care plans. Enhanced Workflow Efficiency Manual data entry is labor-intensive and prone to errors.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

But as noted earlier, the roots of todays EHRs are as systems of record to document claims submissions. Betters UDHP is the underlying technology supporting the OneLondon shared care planning solution across the city of London. In the short- to medium-term, UDHPs will be complementary to EHRs.

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The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Having concluded that the closed panel, capitated integrated care system model could not be reached in a single impossible transformation, as the Clintons attempted and failed to do, it would sow the seeds of capitation through a managed care lite model called Accountable Care Organizations.

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