Healthcare News
Efficient coding audit practices have become a crucial and necessary step in what healthcare organizations must do to remain compliant and profitable. Now is the time to take the essential step of seeking an independent entity to conduct regular coding audits.
Automation has revolutionized the healthcare industry, making day-to-day processes more practical and cost effective across the board. YES aims to provide automated education services with a practical approach, utilizing the knowledge base of our team of nationally recognized educators and experienced executives.
On July 28th though the 31st, FHIMA is holding their annual convention for health information management professionals at the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando, Florida, and YES will be attending!
Electronic health records (EHR) were projected to make some pretty big waves in terms of change in the healthcare industry. In setting major goals of bringing higher quality care, making medicine safer, empowering patients and being more cost-effective, this new method had some pretty big shoes to fill.
Depending on your location, the spring season brings warmer temperature, green grass or maybe even hurricanes. But wherever you are, spring brings the first sign of new ICD code revisions that will be implemented in the fall.
According to LinkedIn’s 2018 Workplace Learning Report, 94% of employees would stay at a company longer if it invested in their career. This staggering percentage is just one major reason why more employers are making continued education in the workplace a top priority. In order to avoid employee turnover, managers are searching for different ways to keep their employees involved and satisfied, professionally.
The effectiveness of value-based care models is measured based on how this type of reimbursement can improve the quality of a patient’s overall health. Reducing hospital readmissions and improvement in preventive care are good examples of critical factors to assess the effectiveness of these models. U.S. legislation is clearly moving towards the adoption of value-based care models.
For many healthcare providers, value-based care is still a fairly new concept. As with any new process, it goes without saying that it will take some time to become fully understood, accepted and incorporated into the day-to-day workflow. But, with the huge potential to continue to decrease spending and improve quality of care, value-based care is definitely a method that isn’t going anywhere but up in the near future.
The YES Education Team is happy to announce that we are implementing a new system for coding education training. Our new Learning Management System (LMS) platform will be the YES HIM Education portal. The portal allows learners to access courses they register for at any time, and on any device. Learners can access and take courses via pc, laptop, tablet or mobile devices anywhere around the world!
Identifying trends in MS-DRGs is not enough to validate a CDI program. Key CDI data, gathered and analyzed from principal diagnosis (PDX), complications and comorbidities (CC), major complications and comorbidities (MCC), and ICD-10-PCS code assignments, provide deeper insights and assist in an accurate validation of a CDI program and its impact on the bottom line.