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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

Documentation Challenges and Payer Friction As MA plans focus on profit margins, hospitals are encountering increased payer friction, denials, and administrative burdens, particularly around the CMS Two-Midnight Rule. So, when you put in that inpatient order, it implicitly means you believe the patient will need that level of care.

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Preparing for CERT Audits and Practicing Compliant Documentation

EvidenceCare

This comprehensive guide provides hospital and revenue cycle leadership with vital insights on preparing for CERT audits and establishing processes for compliant documentation. This section delves into the specific criteria and expectations set by CERT audits, emphasizing the need for meticulous attention to detail and documentation accuracy.

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Understanding GMLOS and ALOS

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These measures play a fundamental role in hospital management, financial planning, and patient care optimization. By understanding and leveraging GMLOS and ALOS, hospital executives can improve operational efficiency and patient outcomes. Conversely, a high GMLOS could reflect more complexity in patient needs.

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Understanding DRG Codes and Their Impact on Hospitals

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In our efforts to empower hospital clinicians to provide better care by having real-time transparency to cost and benchmark utilization data, we’ve learned that one of the core code systems that defines modern hospital resource management – Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRG) – is misunderstood or even unknown. How did it come to be?

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5 Steps to a Stronger Nursing Resume

Minority Nurse

No matter how many job boards allow you to create a personal profile with your career details, having your own consistently updated document accurately representing your expertise could not be a smarter way to always be ready for the next opportunity. Instead, you can keep a separate document on hand listing your most important references.

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Lessons Learned from a New EHR Implementation

EvidenceCare

Stacey Johnston They have also requested early adoption of Epic’s summarizer programs to assist with discharge summaries. Additionally, they are exploring solutions for computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD) that uses AI to help physicians create more accurate and comprehensive clinical documentation.

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A Comprehensive Guide to HL7 Messages

Arkenea

ADT ADT (Admit, Discharge, and Transfer) is the most common and widely used HL7 message types because it offers information for events such as patient registrations, admissions, updates, cancellations, patient data merges, discharges, and much more. Such documents are supplemental data for the pillar parent standard.