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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Category Archives: Case Mix and Reimbursement
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
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HIM Leads Boca Raton Regional Towards ICD-10 Readiness
In a recent Best Practices article, Boca Raton was featured to discuss their ICD-10 plans. Maybe there are some best practices in here for you. Boca Raton Regional Hospital, a 400-bed not-for-profit tertiary medical center serving the residents of southern … Continue reading
CMS Updates Medicare Payment Policies and Rates
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today issued a proposed rule that would update Medicare payment policies and rates for hospitals in Fiscal Year (FY) 2012. Proposals included in the rule would help support the Obama Administration’s efforts … Continue reading
CMS Adds Hospital-Specific Data on HACs to Hospital Compare Site
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) added data about hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) to its Hospital Compare website on April 1st As reported on the HFMA website: “The data release shows the number of times an HAC occurred for … Continue reading
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
