About the authors
Melinda Tully, MSN, CCDS, is Senior VP of Clinical Services and Education and has 25+ years in Acute Care as a Clinical Specialist and Nurse Practitioner. Her area of specialty is clinical documentation education focused on continuous quality improvement.
Paul Weygandt, MD, JD, MPH, MBA, is a Certified Physician Executive (CPE) with over 20 years of combined experience in medical management, legal counsel, and orthopedic surgery. His area of specialty is facilitating CFO-CMO/VPMA/Physician Relationships to drive quality improvement.
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- David Block MD, PhD on ICD-10: AMA Decision Tries to Avoid the Inevitable – and Will Likely Fail
- David Block MD, PhD on Open Medicare Database, Good or Bad for Healthcare?
- Steve Sisko on ICD-10 Impact on Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial Reimbursement
- Admin on AMA Votes to Stop ICD-10
- David Block MD, PhD on AMA Votes to Stop ICD-10
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Monthly Archives: February 2011
HIEs get boost from Health and Human Services Awards
As reported on the HHS.gov Web site: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on February 16, 2011 announced the award of seven cooperative agreements to help a group of “Early Innovator” states design and implement the Information … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged health information exchanges, health reform, hie, himss
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Hospitalists and the Medical Record
The emerging healthcare environment presents a unique set of both challenges and opportunities to hospitalist groups. Hospitalists are being asked to participate in the care of an increasingly large percentage of patients across all specialties. And we know that Medicare … Continue reading
ACO Bundled Payment and the Challenge (Opportunity) for Physician Leadership
The concept of moving toward bundled payment solves many issues for CMS. From CMS’s standpoint, they would no longer care how physicians are compensated. At least for physicians practicing in the inpatient setting, CMS would no longer have to provide … Continue reading
Posted in Accountable Care Organizations, Bundled Payment, Finance, Payment
Tagged accountable care organization, aco, bundled payment, cms, physicians
A Split Forms Over Accountable Care Organizations
Eight US senators are calling for the regulation of Accountable Care Organizations, concerned about “upcoming challenges in healthcare antitrust regulations. To see the letter, visit AHA. The letter, dated Feb. 11, 2011, was addressed to Christine Varney, assistant attorney general … Continue reading
ICD-10 – The Elephant in the Room?
By Guest Blogger Angela Carmichael, HIM Product Development Specialist, J.A. Thomas & Associates Let’s not forget among the swirling changes brought on by healthcare reform and the fundamental change in the delivery of healthcare, we are facing an imminent deadline. The … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Documentation, ICD-10
Tagged 5010, Clinical Documentation, hipaa, icd-10, ms-drg
How Will Physicians Be Paid In The Future?
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Payment Innovation will explore methodologies to link physician payment to quality, decrease incentives to over-utilize services, and align disparate provider interests to improve continuity of care. Traditional fee-for-service, as we now know it, is … Continue reading
NQF Endorses Eight New Outcome Measures for High-Impact Areas
Take Note – The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed eight outcome measures for cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions and care in the intensive care unit. The endorsement of newly endorsed outcome measures was announced in a news release posted to … Continue reading
Posted in Quality Measures
Tagged health, NQF, patient outcomes, quality measures
Value-based Purchasing Incentives
I read with interest the recent story in Healthleaders about CMS Releasing a Value-Based Purchasing Incentive Plan. According to the story, the document sets forth which metrics will generate payment after Oct. 1, 2012. This program is meant to reward … Continue reading
Posted in Value Based Purchasing
Tagged Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, cms, DRG, value based purchasing, vbp
