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Health care providers have used severity adjustment tools at the state level since the 1980s. From both a cost-accounting and a planning standpoint, these statistical tools have helped providers define patterns of illness, establish accepted treatment protocols, and cut costs. The next step, says Darice Grzybowski, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, is increasing the use of severity adjustment tools.
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If the nursing documentation in your emergency department is lacking key information, your facility may not be getting all the reimbursement it deserves. More important, inadequate nursing documentation can open the door for costly legal action down the road.
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This is the first part of a two-part series on improving emergency department reimbursement under ambulatory payment classifications.
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Medicare trustees released their annual report in mid-March, and the picture they painted was not pretty. Costs are projected to triple over the next 75 years, and if the gap between revenues and expenditures doesnt narrow, at worst the fund will be depleted; at best, benefits will be significantly reduced.
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Who doesnt want to do things better? Reducing errors and completing more charts means increasing both the speed and the amount of reimbursement. But improving productivity is easier said than done.
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One day soon in a Kaiser Permanente facility near you, Kaiser patients will no longer be able to take a peek in the chart that the nurse leaves behind on the desk. No, its not because of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); Kaiser is going all digital, all the time.
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You should include the following items in your medical record documentation, according to Candace E. Shaeffer, RN, MBA, vice president of coding/quality management at Lynx Medical Systems in Bellevue, WA:
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If the cost of replacing a typical employee is up to twice the annual salary of that worker, why dont organizations spend more time and resources trying to retain their employees?
