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ICD-10 Audit Target Areas: Diagnostic v. Therapeutic ICD-10-PCS Procedures – Incision and Drainage of Submandibular Abscess

Provident has been engaged in ongoing DRG audits since ICD-10 was implemented in October 2015. We have identified potential DRG audit target areas related to our audit work, changes to the ICD-10 codeset, and Coding Clinic updates. We will be posting cases regularly in our newsletter. Please see this edition’s...

National Physician Query Survey

Provident recently invited over 25,000 healthcare professionals to participate in a short survey regarding their experience with the process for clinical documentation improvement and coding queries. The objective of the survey was to establish an independent industry baseline after the widespread adoption of EHR systems.  Although the results of the...

DRG Audit Target Area – Diabetic Complications

Provident has been engaged in ongoing DRG audits since ICD-10 was implemented in October 2015. We have identified potential DRG audit target areas related to our audit work, changes to the ICD-10 codeset, and Coding Clinic updates. We will be posting cases regularly in our newsletter. Please see this edition’s...

DRG Audit Target Area – Multiple Significant Trauma (MST)

Provident has been engaged in ongoing DRG audits since ICD-10 was implemented in October 2015. We have identified potential DRG audit target areas related to our audit work, changes to the ICD-10 codeset, and Coding Clinic updates. We will be posting cases regularly in our newsletter. Please see this edition’s...

ICD-10 DRG Audit Target Area – Hypovolemic Shock

Provident has been engaged in ongoing DRG audits since ICD-10 was implemented in October 2015. We have identified potential DRG audit target areas related to our audit work, changes to the ICD-10 codeset, and Coding Clinic updates. We will be posting cases regularly in our newsletter. Please see this edition’s...

Opportunity in the Data

How does your healthcare organization identify opportunity/areas of risk? Is a consistent methodology applied? Is data shared among departments? How do you loop in providers/educate? In our experience, healthcare organizations spend a lot of time and resources on the back-end revenue cycle process. With the back-end focus to drop the...

Elements of Success for Improve Quality and Shared Savings

In contradiction to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data, recent studies show that the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) has generated $1.84 billion in savings from 2013 – 2015 and reduced Medicare spending by $542 million.  How will this data impact the recent CMS proposal to overhaul MSSP...

Accountability through Auditing

Recently, the government determined that a North Carolina hospital failed to comply with Medicare billing requirements for 29% of the cases reviewed in the sample.  Using extrapolation, the government is requesting the hospital repay over $700,000 in overpayments.  In addition to the repayment, the government included other mitigation strategies that...

ICD-10 DRG Audit Target Area – Cirrhosis with Bleeding Esophageal Varices

Provident has been engaged in ongoing DRG audits since ICD-10 was implemented in October 2015. We have identified potential DRG audit target areas related to our audit work, changes to the ICD-10 codeset, and Coding Clinic updates. We will be posting cases regularly in our newsletter. Please see this edition’s...

Define and Expand Your Mobile Strategy

A recent annual survey of over 300 healthcare professionals across the country asked questions about how mobile policies are adopted and enforced and plans for extending mobile technology.  Overall, the survey responses indicated that current policy is primarily focused on the use of mobile devices versus defining and expanding mobile...

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