This week’s Medicare updates include the OIG’s Semiannual Report to Congress, an announcement that the Hospital Appeals Settlement Process is now open, a HCPCS Code Update for Preventive Services, and more!
At many facilities, hospitalists shuttle from floor to floor to see patients, each time trying to track down the nurse and other professionals working on each case. Information is typically transferred through an inefficient system of pages and phone calls—sometimes taking hours at a time to deliver crucial pieces of information. Enter the accountable care unit—a new way of configuring care systems that can help to uncoil tangled communication wires between clinicians and support staff to provide care that is more efficient and streamlined.
The revenue cycle in a hospital or health system is a continuum, and each department and role within the cycle has to work in unison to be successful. This handbook will help get everyone, from billers to clinicians, on the same page improving systemic information flow and feedback loops.
Advisory Board
Kimberly Anderwood Hoy Baker, JD Director of Medicare and Compliance
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