Dr. Jonathan Burroughs explains how to stage and integrate a population health program as your organization moves from fee for service to alternative reimbursement methodologies under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
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ICD-10 requires substantially more documentation in the medical record than ICD-9, and creating this documentation can be a headache for busy physicians and for the coding staffs who struggle to generate codes when they have a paucity of information to work with. One strategy healthcare systems have embraced to ease the burden of physician…
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Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s minority opinion in the 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Supreme Court case was prescient. She predicted that the majority opinion–favoring the right of closely held corporations (a corporation in which five or fewer shareholders own more than 50 percent equity of the organization) to opt out of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s mandate to provide birth control coverage to employees on the basis of religious objection–would be a slippery slope.
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With the introduction of ICD-10 on Oct. 1, there are now 132,500 new codes and new ways for healthcare organizations to be paid less based upon inadequate documentation or, worse, documentation that does not support the services rendered.
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With the recent implementation of ICD-10, part two of our series explores some ‘best practice’ clinical documentation initiatives (CDI) that are rapidly spreading throughout the country to better understand what you must do to survive and even thrive in this major systemic change.
DetailsThe ICD-10 code set for reporting diagnoses and procedures to payers consists of 132,500 codes compared with 16,800 in ICD-9 set.
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Redesign the Medical Staff Model: A Guide to Collaborative Change by Dr. Jonathan Burroughs is now available through Health Care Administration Press
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Population health is not possible in a discounted fee-for-service world, and the significant healthcare business challenge is how to transition from fee-for-service to risk-based capitation in a sustainable way.
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Alarm fatigue has moved to the forefront of hazards on the hospital floor. Dr, Jonathan Burroughs offers strategies to manage alarm fatigue.
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Regulatory hurdles prevent more hospitals from using e-health to its full potential. Federal and state policies and regulations on care rendered via technology from a remote site spin a tangled web for providers either engaged in e-health or who want to be. A February 2014 article in Health Affairs found strong associations between state policies…
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