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A look at CMS’ strategic vision, accomplishments over the last year, and what is on the horizon. In September 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its strategic vision and priorities for those served by CMS programs. Chiquita Brooks-LaSure announced within months of beginning her new role as CMS administrator that expanding […]
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An Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System (ASC PS) update that took effect July 1, 2019, changes billing instructions for various payment policies and codes. Here is what you need to know to properly bill Medicare for these services and supplies. New CPT Category III Codes Effective July 1, 2019, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid […]
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Briefings on Accreditation & Quality (BOAQ) has changed its name to Inside Accreditation & Quality (IAQ), a 16-page monthly newsletter. And going forward all HCPro Accreditation newsletters, blogs, tools, etc. will be posted on our new website Accreditation & Quality Compliance Center.
The United States Attorney’s Office reported today that CareWell Urgent Care Centers of MA, P.C., CareWell Urgent Care of Rhode Island, P.C., and Urgent Care Centers of New England Inc. (CareWell), the proprietors and administrators of earnest consideration focuses situated all through Massachusetts and Rhode Island, have consented to pay $ 2 million to determine charges that they abused the False Claims Act by submitting swelled and upcoded cases to Medicare, Massachusetts Medicaid (MassHealth), the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission (GIC), and Rhode Island Medicaid.
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The healthcare industry is a fast-paced, ever-changing business that never rests. Perpetual changes to federal regulations, code sets, and technology make it nearly impossible to stay up to date. But stay up to date we must to ensure compliance and receipt of proper reimbursement for healthcare services and supplies. If only there was one place you could turn to […]
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Rosemary Grant, BSN, RN, CPHQ, is the sepsis coordinator at Harborview. She says her facility chose to focus on sepsis detection because the condition is “prevalent, expensive, and deadly.”
“When we looked at data from our hospital and others, we saw that patients who develop sepsis in the hospital have a much higher mortality than patients who arrive in the emergency department with sepsis,” Grant says. “So we knew we needed to focus on faster identification of sepsis in our inpatient population.”