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Navigating the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) rules can be tricky. It can be handy to have a fact sheet that goes over a variety of CMS topics. We recommend you use this interactive Medicare learning resource!
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Is “lost in translation” the only risk providers face when trying to adequately serve the Latino population with healthcare needs and challenges? Two big “No-no’s” in this scenario.
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Though many patients and healthcare providers complain about the use of EHRs, there is a set of guidelines that can make the EHR an effective tool to improve communication and trust between patients and providers.
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Over the course of the last decade, U.S. hospitals are continuing to expand their urgent care clinic networks. According to a NPR/Kaiser Health News report from December 2017, the primary goals for adopting a more decentralized approach through urgent care facilities include: Expanding the footprint/brand of the health system (at a discounted rate); Generating new referrals; Keeping patients out of the ED (40% of ED visits nationwide DO NOT require Emergency Services); and boosting patient satisfaction.
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The role of the YES Clinical Documentation Improvement (CDI) Specialist is to be a liaison and a partner, to compare the facility CDIS Medicare severity diagnosis-related group (MS-DRG) to the facility coder MS-DRG when there is a mismatch between the two MS-DRGs.
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