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News

Coding managers: Maintaining your inpatient-coder schedules
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor

In today’s virtual environment, with its focus on flexible schedules, organizing an inpatient coding team requires consideration of time zones, team member skills, volume of work, and claim-processing schedules.
MACRA: More approved registries to ease MIPS reporting for specialists
Source: HealthLeaders Media

A 61% increase in the number of Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) will allow physicians to report more relevant data and may spur the creation of more specialty-specific quality measures going forward.
 

Revenue Cycle Advisor Subscriber Content

Note from the instructor: Review of CY 2017 Part A inpatient hospital benefit and beneficiary cost sharing
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor

This week's note discusses Medicare benefits for inpatient hospital coverage and Medicare as a secondary payer.
 

Daily Q&A

Q&A: Reporting a diagnosis on a certificate of work absence
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Q: Our human resources department does not accept certificates of work absences without diagnoses. How does HIPAA apply in this situation?

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Upcoming CMS Events

Thursday 6/15 - National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care and QAPI Call
Wednesday 6/28 - CLIA Certificate of Provider-performed Microscopy Webcast
Thursday 6/29 - Improvements to the Medicare Claims Appeal Process and Statistical Sampling Call
 

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Healthcare Analytics: Modeling the Future

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