Most inpatient rehabilitation facility stays might not meet Medicare coverage or documentation requirements and compliance could be improved through a preauthorization process, according to a recent Office of Inspector General report.Read More »
CMS’ latest payment system changes and the implications for 2019 and beyond made waves on day one of the 2018 Revenue Integrity Symposium in Litchfield Park, Arizona. Attendees at the back-to-back general sessions on October 16 had the opportunity to ask revenue integrity experts questions about...Read More »
It is common knowledge that Clinical Documentation Improvement and HIM coding are integral to healthcare revenue integrity and accurate classification of the severity of illness of a given patient population.
Many providers, however, fail to realize the powerful impact of CDI and HIM on...Read More »