As part of the fiscal year 2019 IPPS final rule, CMS required hospitals to publish their lists of retail charges for individual services and DRGs in online spreadsheets starting on January 1. Fulfilling that requirement is another matter entirely.
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Healthcare price transparency off to a slow start in 2019
Source: ACDIS
As part of the fiscal year 2019 IPPS final rule, CMS required hospitals to publish their lists of retail charges for individual services and DRGs in online spreadsheets starting on January 1. Fulfilling that requirement is another matter entirely.
Inpatient study: ICD-10-CM coding impacts MS-DRG assignment and LOS for malnourished patients
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
An inpatient study recently published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics demonstrates the importance of accurate ICD-10-CM reporting for malnutrition to ensure accurate Medicare severity diagnosis-related group (MS-DRG) assignment and the establishment of appropriate comparison benchmarks such as expected geometric mean length of stay.
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Keep your auditing and monitoring up to date
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Keeping your privacy, security, and breach notification policies and procedures up to date is part of HIPAA compliance, and this requires regular audits and monitoring.
 

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Q&A: Receiving payments in SPR format
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Q: How is a standard paper remittance (SPR) different from an electronic remittance advice (ERA)?

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