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Why Avoiding Costly Coding Mistakes Is More Critical Than Ever

HIT Consultant

Hilton Hudson, MD, FACS, and CEO of HPC International In May 2022, a California doctor was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for his involvement in a $12 million Medicare fraud scheme. Physicians should emphasize their value in terms of patient outcomes, quality of care, and cost-effectiveness. He received $4.5

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Recognizing the Role of Caregiver with Melissa Fisher | E. 79

Vie Healthcare

Episode Introduction Melissa shares the four challenges faced by caregivers today, calls on doctors to recognize family and patients as a ‘’unit’’, and highlights the ‘’unpaid, untrained, overwhelmed, burned-out’’ reality of caregiving. ” Are you getting what you need to process improve? Really, they’re not.

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National Care Coordination Standards for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) Implementation Guide

NASHP

This section of the guide outlines considerations, examples, and resources for: Identifying stakeholders and establishing partnerships across care coordination and child-serving systems. Assessing care coordination system capacity, gaps, and process improvements. Financing care coordination systems.

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

We have brutal wars going on where schools and hospitals are destroyed and used to protect combatants. They were used in the Covid period to help keep patients out of the over-full hospitals, alerting the caregiver and the patient via cell phone if their oxygen saturation declined below 92%. No patient should be found “dead in bed”!