Value-Based Care: Quality Over Quantity

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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.

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Know Your CDI Data: Statistics and Trends Analysis for Successful CDI Programs

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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.

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Compliance Audits Shed Light on Performance Improvement in Medical Coding

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Is my team’s coding accuracy up to industry standards? This is a question many HIM and Coding decision makers find themselves asking. Coding compliance audits can provide an organization the ability to follow regulatory guidelines in regards to their coding practices. Get an overview of the impact compliance audits have on both the hospital level and the physician-practice level. Read more.

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Identifying Transformative Healthcare Trends

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Continuing advancements in technology, regulation changes, and increasing healthcare costs are just a few of the changes that are inevitable in the foreseeable future. So, how do we strategically prepare for changes in the healthcare industry that we cannot even predict yet? Read on to find out.

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