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Navigating Medicare Advantage: Strategies for Hospitals to Tackle Growing Challenges

EvidenceCare

Notably, fewer ICD-10 codes qualify for mapping to HCCs, reflecting CMS’ focus to reduce the number of diagnoses that count towards risk adjustment. Newly added HCCs cover more specific conditions, removing redundant codes and adjusting groupings to align with actual patient risk. Report 4201 violations when appropriate.

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Seamless Electronic Health Record Integration: The Key to a Streamlined Practice and Better Patient Outcomes

CollaborateMD

Practices that fail to integrate are often left dealing with fragmented data, slow reimbursements, and avoidable patient risks. With unified patient data, providers can collaborate more effectively and avoid miscommunication with less manual data entry, leading to greater continuity of care and better patient experiences.

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Who Needs Humans, Anyway?

The Healthcare Blog

By simulating a variety of AI patients, medical students can confidently propose treatment plans without the fear of causing harm to real patients due to decision-making error. No more interns fumbling with actual patients, risking their lives to help train those young doctors. So one hopes.

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