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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- Admin on AMA Votes to Stop ICD-10
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Category Archives: Value Based Purchasing
With VBP, Clinical Documentation Role Even More Important
When one takes into the account the needs of Value Based Purchasing (VBP), essential CDS skills are more important than ever. With VBP, many healthcare leaders are rethinking their needs when trying to fill a newly created or vacant clinical … Continue reading
Posted in Health Reform, Value Based Purchasing
Tagged cdi, clinical documentation and vbp, j.a. thomas, value based purchasing, vbp
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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
Value-based Purchasing’s Performance Period starts today, July 1st
The proposed Hospital Value Based Purchasing program is taking the next step today. Hospitals will be scored on their performance on quality measures starting today, July 1st, kicking off a 9-month performance period lasting until March 31, 2012. CMS views value-based … Continue reading
CMS issues final rule for Hospital VBP program
As reported in HDM Breaking News, April 29, 2011 Rule Set for Value-Based Purchasing The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule to establish the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing program that will tie acute care Medicare payments to … Continue reading
Value Based Purchasing Challenges Quality of Your Data
Value based purchasing (VBP) is slowly sinking in with hospitals. The reality is that in FY 2013, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) will begin providing value-based incentive payments to hospitals based on 1) performance and 2) improvement … 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
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
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Tagged Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, cms, DRG, value based purchasing, vbp
