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News

Security Q&A: Passwords, BAAs, and ransomware recovery
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
This month's HIPAA security Q&A looks at appointment tracking software, data backups, and password requirements.
Clinical validation denial targets
Source: ACDIS Blog
Auditors target multiple conditions which for clinical validation denials. Personally, I found acute kidney injury and malnutrition the most commonly defensible targets.
Healthgrades names 100 best hospitals for 2017
Source: HealthLeaders Media
The healthcare quality rating service claims that patients treated in their top 100 hospitals have a 27% lower risk of dying than patients treated in hospitals that did not receive the award.
 

Daily Q&A

Q&A: Coding acute hypoxic and acute hypercapnic respiratory failure
Source: ACDIS

Q: When the physician documents that the patient is acute hypoxic and acute hypercapnic, should we code both of these diagnoses?

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Upcoming CMS Events

Tuesday 2/28 - Hospital Quality Open Door Forum

Tuesday 3/7 - ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee Meeting
Wednesday 3/15 - SNF VBP: Understanding Your Facility's Confidential Feedback Report Call
Tuesday 3/21 - National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and QAPI Call
 

Product Spotlight

Acute Kidney Injury: Recognize Clinical Criteria for Proper Documentation, Coding

Join expert speakers Jonathan LaFleur, BSN, RN, CCS, and Kimberly Janet Carr, RHIT, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, as they help listeners define acute kidney injury (AKI) and acute renal failure (ARF), recognize their fundamental metrics, and review real-life case studies so the audience can see the impact of an AKI/ARF denial on an organization.
 

    

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What's New

Discharge Planning: Realignment of Standards and Workflow

Members can access this 90-minute webinar covering discharge planning requirements and what they mean for the everyday routine of case managers and other hospital and postacute care staff members.
 
 

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