Charge Capture

By analyzing coder performance data, organizations pinpoint revenue vulnerabilities and mitigate reimbursement risk.

Concerns about the two-midnight rule continue, but experts insist that they can be overcome with better education of utilization review and case management staff.

Now that the ICD-10 conversion deadline has passed, what are the top issues that providers are seeing?

As hospitals and health systems address additional time for the ICD-10 transition, it will be key to recognize where efforts stand compared with others in such key areas as documentation training, coding support, contract analysis, and contingency planning. With this in mind, HFMA researchers, with sponsorship from 3M HIS, surveyed executive and revenue cycle leaders about current efforts and top challenges they are likely to face moving forward.

HFMA urges CMS to undertake a comprehensive approach to testing the readiness of the Medicare contractors and state Medicaid agencies for the October 1, 2014, ICD-10 implementation.

In this survey of hospital CFOs and other senior-level executives, HFMA researchers share industry views on areas of CDI priority, opportunity, common barriers, and use of outsourcing to support more accurate and complete documentation and charge capture.

Hospital leaders can adapt this ICD-10 transition survey to identify potential migration pitfalls in outpatient departments.

This Revenue Cycle Forum Ask the Expert question asks if there is a real-time coding scrubber option out there.

How long should we keep charge tickets in the ambulatory care setting?

HFMA prepared a comment on the CMS proposal to change the compliance date for ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS medical data code sets that was published in the April 17, 2012, Federal Register.