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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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Can Your Clinical Documentation Live Up to Value-Based Purchasing?
Value Based Purchasing (VBP) is shining an even brighter spotlight on the quality component of healthcare delivery. VBP is a quality incentive program built on the hospital inpatient quality reporting (IQR) measure and required by the Patient Protection and Affordable … Continue reading
Posted in Case Mix and Reimbursement, Clinical Documentation, Value Based Purchasing
Tagged DRG payments, j.a. thomas, value based purchasing, vbp and clinical documentation
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Delay on ICD-10 Compliance Date
Your thoughts on the announcement below? Surprised, expected, indifferent? HHS Announces Intent to Delay ICD-10 Compliance Date In a new press release from HHS, Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that HHS will initiate a process to postpone the compliance date by … Continue reading
Posted in ICD-10
Tagged hhs icd-10 delay, icd-10, icd-10 delay, j.a. thomas
Hospitalists Play an Important Role in Good Documentation
If we can improve our documentation skills, both physicians and hospitals can get credit where credit is due. This becomes critical as Medicare ramps up its claims denial and recovery business to help “clean up” the system. This includes the … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Documentation
Tagged Clinical Documentation, hospitalists documentation, j.a. thomas, medicare rac
ACOs, a Bonafide Answer?
A January 2012 Wall Street Journal article asked a diverse group of health-care policy experts to discuss, in an exchange of emails, whether ACOs are an answer to what ails the health-care system. Their panelists were: Donald M. Berwick, who stepped … Continue reading
Open Medicare Database, Good or Bad for Healthcare?
On December 5, 2011 CMS finalized a regulation that will allow its extensive claims database to be used by employers, insurance companies and consumer groups to produce report cards on local doctors and hospitals. Pursuant to section 10332 of the … Continue reading
