Dear Reader: Maternal mortality rates in the U.S are abnormally high, in comparison to those of other developed countries. For that reason, we are embarking on a four-part series focusing on this vitally important and timely topic, with today’s edition of ICD10monitor and its accompanying live ...
CMS has responded to concerns associated with this issue. As usual, Dr. Ronald Hirsch is making more work for me! He saw an article on sepsis and knew I, and you, my audience, would be interested, so he brought it to my attention (Litell JM, Guirgis F, et. al., Most emergency department patients ...
One such example is computer-assisted physician documentation (CAPD). Artificial intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), and “the engine,” machine learning, began creeping into the clinical documentation integrity (CDI) profession 10 years ago, whereas it previously was a field that ...
Former OIG special agent reveals how the PHE has been abused by con artists to scam unsuspecting seniors. Telemedicine and telehealth: both terms elicit thoughts of being in front of a screen of some sort and having an interaction with a healthcare professional. Prior to the Public Health ...
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This area of coding is not so easy. While most maternal deaths are preventable, the rate has been increasing in the United States since 2000. As a matter of fact, the U.S. has twice as many maternal deaths than other high-income countries. To reverse this trend, The Joint Commission, the Centers ...
