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News

AHIMA form aims to streamline, simplify patients’ requests for medical records
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
A new model patient request for health information form aims to simplify the medical record request process and reduce confusion and errors that lead to compliance problems.
Tip of the week

"For a patient admitted as an inpatient for an acute hepatitis B infection, the ICD-10-CM Alphabetic Index guides the coder to B16.9 (acute hepatitis B without delta-agent and without hepatic coma). However, other factors can influence the code selection, such as the inclusion of delta-agent or hepatitis D," says Adrienne Commeree, CPC, CPMA, CCS, CEMC, CPIP, coding regulatory specialist for HCPro.
HIM Briefings’ outsourcing benchmark survey

Have you ever wondered how other organizations leverage outsourced HIM services? Now you can find out! HIM Briefings is conducting a benchmarking survey on the use of outsourced functions in the HIM department, and we would appreciate your input. One respondent will be selected at random to win his or her choice of a free HCPro webinar. Click here to take the survey.
 

Revenue Cycle Advisor Subscriber Content

Maintaining profitability in an ever-changing reimbursement and regulatory environment
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
When Spencer Johnson wrote the iconic book, Who Moved My Cheese? An A-Mazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and in Your Life, he probably didn’t have the homecare industry in mind. But with the speed of reimbursement and regulatory issues surrounding us today, he certainly could have. 
 

Daily Q&A

Q&A: Missing documentation for acute kidney injury
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Q: We are currently coding a chart for an acute kidney injury which has the baseline serum creatinine and urine output missing from the chart. Is there something we can do before we have to query the physician?  

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Email your questions for consideration in the Revenue Cycle Daily Advisor. Note: We do not guarantee that all questions will be answered.
 

Upcoming CMS Events

Wednesday 8/16 - Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program Model Expansion Listening Session
Thursday 8/17 - Public Meeting Regarding New and Reconsidered Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Codes
Monday 8/21 - Advisory Panel on Hospital Outpatient Payment Meeting
Wednesday 8/30 - MEDCAC - Health Outcomes After Bariatric Surgical Therapies in the Medicare Population
 

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The Medicare Boot Camp—Provider-Based Departments Version provides education on attestations, on- and off-campus determinations, enrollment, billing, and reimbursement. This Boot Camp will provide brand new insight for understanding hospital outpatient department billing and reimbursement in an ever-changing regulatory landscape.
 

    

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How Identifying the Right Revenue Cycle Solutions Partner Can Save Hospitals Millions

In 2015, after new revenue cycle leadership came onboard at CoxHealth, the team perceived a need for additional resources to address a stubborn backlog of aging accounts.
 
 

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