As the official implementation of ICD-10 approaches, healthcare organizations are finalizing plans for managing this transition. One key initiative to prepare for ICD-10 is to implement dual coding. There are many benefits to dual coding beyond providing coders an opportunity to practice including: identification of remediation training needs, minimizing productivity...
Chiropractic Coding: How Chiropractic Practices Must Adapt to the ICD-10 Transition
Medical coders for a hospital or general medical practice have an uphill climb – the number of codes they will be responsible for learning and knowing is immense when the ICD-10 transition occurs in October 2015. It would follow then that healthcare providers who specialize – like chiropractors – should...
How the Health Information Management Industry Will Be Impacted by the ICD-10 Transition
Mention the ICD-10 transition to a health information management (HIM) team and one word is likely to come to mind: productivity. There are approximately five times the number of codes in ICD-10 than in ICD-9. Disease classifications will be in the double digits. Inpatient hospital procedure codes alone will increase...
What Hospitals Need to Know About the Two-Midnight Rule
The Two-Midnight Rule is a benchmark for physicians to use in determining a patient’s status for care, whether inpatient or outpatient, at all inpatient acute care hospitals, including Long Term Care Hospitals and critical access hospitals. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Two-Midnight Rule over concerns...
The Value of a Physician Advisor
Navigating through the intricacies of Medicare regulations and ICD-10 implementation is challenging enough for busy medical professionals. Now, the introduction of new health care policies as set by the federal government is making it even more difficult for healthcare providers and staff to give their patients the most thorough and...
Provident’s Patient StatusEdge™ Supports Hospitals with CMS’ New Proposed Strategy to Reduce Medicare Appeals Backlog
Press Release Provident’s Patient StatusEdge™ Supports Hospitals with CMS’ New Proposed Strategy to Reduce Medicare Appeals Backlog Provident, a leader in healthcare management consulting and compliance solutions announces Patient StatusEdge™, a cloud-based appeals management program that simplifies the patient status audit and appeals process allowing hospitals to bring denials management...
Provident Consulting announces the DocEdge™ ICD-10 Mobile Documentation Solution
Press Release Provident Consulting announces the DocEdge™ ICD-10 Mobile Documentation Solution Provident, a leader in healthcare management consulting and Technology-Enabled Clinical Services™ announces the release of DocEdge ICD-10 Mobile, an innovative mobile point-of-care solution that provides high impact, easy to understand clinical flow charts to guide clinical documenters to meet...
ICD-10 “Gut Check” and New Opportunities to Bring Case Management Audits and Appeals In-House
In the News Interview with: Michael T. Dougherty, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Provident Consulting ICD-10 implementation and a recent CMS decision create significant compliance, quality, and revenue opportunities for healthcare systems and providers in 2015, according to Michael T. Dougherty, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Provident Consulting. These...
Provident’s Chicago Compliance Round Table
You’re Invited to Provident’s Chicago Compliance Roundtable Sponsored by Loyola University Chicago School of Law Topic: Risk Mitigation From a Compliance Perspective Join Us September 26, 2014 The Chicago Compliance Roundtable brings healthcare compliance professionals together in an informal setting and provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges and situations...
Meet Provident at AHIMA
Please stop by Provident Booth #725 (The Candy Booth) at the AHIMA 2014 Convention, September 28-October 2 in San Diego. Meet our Team, preview our ICD-10 Physician Training Tools, and entice your sweet tooth! For an appointment to view a demonstration of our Training Tool while at AHIMA, please call 312-833-8771. ...