CMS’ fiscal year 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule, released April 23, includes a proposed increase to hospital payment rates, annual ICD-10-CM/PCS code update proposals, and significant changes to complication or comorbidity/major complication or comorbidity and Medicare-Severity Diagnosis-Related Group designations.
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FY 2020 IPPS proposed rule increases hospital payment rates, releases ICD-10-CM/PCS codes
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
CMS’ fiscal year 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule, released April 23, includes a proposed increase to hospital payment rates, annual ICD-10-CM/PCS code update proposals, and significant changes to complication or comorbidity/major complication or comorbidity and Medicare-Severity Diagnosis-Related Group designations.
Clinicians’ EHR workarounds pose patient safety and quality risk, study finds
Source: ACDIS
According to a new study published in PLOS One, hospital care teams frequently use handwritten notes and verbal comments to communicate patient information in order to bypass design and usability issues in their electronic health record (EHR) system. This practice, however, can pose a major threat to patient safety and quality of care.
 

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