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News

Quality improvement program has little impact on reducing hospitalizations
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers, a quality improvement program aimed at reducing hospitalizations and emergency department visits among nursing home patients, yielded little results, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine study.
A call for standards, auditing of hospital quality data
Source: HealthLeaders Media
Quality data looks good in ads and on hospital and health system websites--a little too good at times.
 

Revenue Cycle Advisor Subscriber Content

CMS proposal would impact date of service policies for laboratory tests
Source: Revenue Cycle Advisor
In the 2018 OPPS proposed rule, CMS proposed a change to the current clinical laboratory date-of-service policies for molecular pathology tests and for Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory Tests.
 

Daily Q&A

Q&A: Primary, principal, and secondary diagnoses
Source: ACDIS
Q: Sometimes I confuse the secondary diagnosis for the primary diagnosis. Do you have any tips for me to help me discern better?

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Upcoming CMS Events

Tuesday 9/12 - ICD-10-CM Coordination and Maintenance Committee
Wednesday 9/13 - Advisory Panel on Outreach and Education (APOE) (the Panel)
Tuesday 9/19 - Qualified Medicare Beneficiary Program Billing Rules Call
Wednesday 9/20 - Reporting Hospice Quality Data: Tips For Compliance Call
 

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