Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient.

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Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

JUNE 1, 2022

Undercoded Complex Hospital Admissions. Coders are challenged to select the codes that best convey the reason for admission. With the shift to value-based care and risk adjustment models, there’s a need for coding that gives a complete clinical picture of the patient.

Documentation 52

Documentation Medical Coding Admissions Follow-Up 52

Relias

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Pay attention to your record on patients having urgent, unplanned emergency room visits or hospital readmissions within the first 60 days of care by your agency. It is important that patients released from your agency’s care are positioned to avoid hospital admissions for potentially preventable conditions within the first 30 days of release.

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Follow-Up Discharges Hospital Admissions 52

Relias

JANUARY 30, 2024

Healthcare organizations receive scores from the HCAHPS survey , which according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is “the first national, standardized, publicly reported survey of patients’ perspectives of hospital care.” While this behavior may boost satisfaction ratings, it can also jeopardize quality of care.

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Relias

JANUARY 8, 2024

The HCAHPS survey evaluates key elements of the patient experience, including communication with doctors and nurses, responsiveness of hospital staff, hospital cleanliness and noise level, pain management, and availability of information. Communicating consistently — Patients want to be informed.

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Patient Satisfaction Patient Experience Hospital Scheduling 52

Relias

MAY 1, 2022

Understanding the legal implications of gaps in care can help protect all involved: physicians, nurses, other caregivers, and healthcare administrators and leaders. Carefully assessing on admission. Skillful Clinician Communication. Empathy and open communication are important as you strive to avoid lawsuits.

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Documentation Admissions Acute Care Communication 98

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Hence, the SWAT RN is a nursing role that is instrumental in the promotion of the nursing process and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s 2019 Clinical Judgment Measurement Model within the acute care setting, as they work collaboratively with bedside nurse leaders to facilitate positive patient outcomes. and HgB- 7.2

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Relias

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What is care coordination? Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. In emergency care settings, care coordination can involve immediate care, hospital admission, discharge planning, follow-up care, and post-acute care.

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Care Plan Patient Satisfaction Acute Care Collaboration 52

Relias

MARCH 13, 2023

Include all data points in a machine-readable file Your hospital must list your standard charges for all procedures — any item or service a patient could receive during an inpatient admission or outpatient visit — in a single machine-readable file that is easily accessible on your public website.

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Hospital Documentation Billing Insurance 52

The Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

There was also statisticallysignificant decline (-3.9%) in revenue per adjusted admission, which casts doubt upon the ‘mergers lead to higher prices’ hypothesis. Compared to the Health Planning statutes target of 4 acute care beds per thousand, today the US is at 2.3 What Caused the Deaths? beds per thousand.

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Hospital Insurance Admissions Acute Care 83

The HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) also published an interoperability rule in March 2020 that applies to Medicare- and Medicaid-participating short-term acute care hospitals, long-term care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, psychiatric hospitals, children’s hospitals, cancer hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs).

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HIPAA Business Associate Appointments Transfers 124