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Achieving Clinical Documentation Improvement
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) is a process that continually seeks to answer, “How best can maximize the integrity of the medical record?” Although the goal of CDI is always the same—to provide a complete and accurate picture of a patient’s medical condition(s) and the care they receives—the means to achieve that goal are often specific […]
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Product of the week: Clinical Documentation Improvement Tips to Identify Patient Safety Indicator Targets webcast
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs need to expand their focus beyond CC/MCC capture reviews. New reimbursement methods are punishing facilities that cannot prove they meet certain quality standards. That proof often lies within what is (or isn’t) documented in the medical record.
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CMS Updates MIPS Improvement Activities for 2018
The Quality Payment Program is well into its second performance year. Are your clinicians ready? Clinicians eligible to participate in the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) are already behind schedule if they haven’t selected measures on which to submit data to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS has been busy posting on […]
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Earn Improvement Activity Credit for MIPS Year 2
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is conducting the 2018 Burdens Associated with Reporting Quality Measures Study. Clinicians and groups who are eligible for the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) that participate successfully in the study will receive full credit for the 2018 Improvement Activities performance category. Time is of the Essence The […]
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The Role Of Medical Companies In Health Improvement In India
India has undergone a paradigm shift owing to its competitive stand in the world Medical sector is very crucial part of Indian economy and need to reform it. Medical Companies provide excellent services of good health and surgical instruments and other medical equipments.
Medical Companies formulate synergistic and quick absorbing pure essential oils combination of Sports Fitness, Diagnostic Medical Equipments, MRI machine products. The Companies have been successful in demonstrate its presence both in the health care and the developed markets and its products are already being exported to different states of India. Medical Companies also provide Hospital Furniture, autoclave, Baby Care Products, Laboratory Equipments and Sterilization Equipments. These equipments are basic needs of hospitals. Sterilization Equipments are provided in different types like Horizontal Cylindrical High Pressure and Horizontal Rectangular High Pressure as per the requirements of customers. Most companies provide facility of Bio-Medical Equipment and offers health insurance plans to reduce health cost.
Medical Companies the biggest suppliers of Surgical Equipments like Mechanical Cutters which includes Drill Bits and Rasps. Baby Care Products used for babies like Baby Cot, Baby Beds and Baby Magic; these products are comfortable for grower babies.
Medical Companies manufacture a number of instruments like PET and CT scanners, X-ray Machine, Surgical Instruments, etc. These medical instruments help to show the patient’s medical state. These equipments are easily installed and smoothly operated by ward boys. These are used in hospitals for detecting specific diseases in small and big cities at different part of India.
Medical Companies have really improved health sector in India. These days people in India are not facing health problems on major scale as twenty or thirty years ago. We are getting better health care facilities and this has become possible due to good contribution of medical companies. So these services are provided in reasonable price for customers.
Sachin Chaudhary. Indian Surgical Industries is the best medical company of Delhi/India, providing all kinds of medical equipment like autoclave, hospital furniture, hospital bed and other medical & surgical equipments.
Quality Improvement Coordinator and Research
Has anyone billed out the chronic care management add on code G0506 and if so how are you justifying using it? What exactly would the "extra work" for the billing practitioner be? If you have billed it out did you have any luck getting it paid? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!!
Documentation Improvement – CRC exam
Good Afternoon, I have attempted my CRC exam twice and have come really, really close. I keep falling "short" in the area of "Documentation Improvement" I have the study guide (well, partially. Chapters 6-11) Is there any "hope for me"? I have read all the materials I have and all of my scores have improved except this "area of focus". Any Suggestions? Can someone possibly "elaborate" on what exactly Documentation Improvement regards? Any and All words of advice and encouragement are very welcomed and appreciated.
Jose’ D.S. Rodriquez RMA, CPC (hopefully future CRC)
Transitioning Your Radiology Practice to MIPS: Improvement Activities
This is the third in our series of articles designed to help radiology practices prepare for the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). Previous articles covered the Quality Performance Category, which is the largest portion of the MIPS score, and the Advancing Care Information (ACI) Category. Quality will initially account for at least 60% of the total MIPS score and ACI will account for up to 25% of the total score. The Improvement Activities (IA) Category, originally called the Clinical Practice Improvement Activities in proposed regulations, represents 15% of the total score for 2017, the first year of MIPS participation. The fourth element of MIPS, the Cost Category, has been reweighted to zero for 2017.
