Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced on January 8 that nearly $3 million in grants will be provided to 13 community health organizations across the state for programs that address the social determinants of health.
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Massachusetts to invest $3 million in grants through new Social Determinants Partnership program
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced on January 8 that nearly $3 million in grants will be provided to 13 community health organizations across the state for programs that address the social determinants of health.
Verma commends three health systems for their price transparency
Source: HealthLeaders Media
Three health systems that have voluntarily taken steps to promote price transparency for their patients received kudos recently from the CMS administrator.
 

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Making risk work for you: Use outpatient CDI reviews to address coding and documentation errors
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Establishing an outpatient CDI program can have substantial benefits. Recently, an outpatient CDI review project demonstrated there were many documentation improvement opportunities at a large family practice/internal medicine physician clinic.
 

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Q&A: Advice for clinical indicator placement in queries
Source: ACDIS
Q: Our physician advisors are requesting the question and options be listed before the clinical indicators and treatment in the query. I could not locate any direction regarding this format in the current ACDIS/AHIMA physician query practice brief. Do you have any advice?

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