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News
Care coordination company partners with Uber Health to provide patient transportation solution
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
The partnership with Uber reflects a growing trend in the healthcare world toward utilizing ride-share services to improve access to quality care. 
MSSP ACOs do not improve savings or quality, study finds
Source: HealthLeaders Media
After accounting for selective dropping of high-cost physicians and patients, savings in ACOs were little to none, according to a recent study.
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Revenue Cycle Advisor Subscriber Content

Revenue codes: Everything you wanted to know but were too embarrassed to ask
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
If you only bill using the CMS-1500 claim form, then you’ve probably never seen a revenue code. But if you need to bill for facilities, you know revenue codes play an important communicative role between providers and insurers. 
 

Daily Q&A
Q&A: Sepsis physiology versus a sepsis diagnosis
Source: ACDIS

Q: We recently had a patient who became hypoxic during hospitalization, with oxygen saturation, hypotension, and tachycardia. Based on the findings, can sepsis be coded? What is the difference between sepsis physiology and true pneumosepsis?

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