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CODING CORNER May 2019 • ACP Hospitalist 5 Diagnosis-related ...
In 1983, Medicare adopted the DRG methodology (now known as CMS-DRGs) for hospital inpatient care reimbursement, with the intention of curbing skyrocketing health care costs. ... In 2007, CMS adopted Medicare Severity DRGs (MS-DRGs) to better differentiate patients’ severity of illness and associated costs of care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/05/acph-201905-coding-corner-the-abcs-of-drgs_t1.pdf
27 Apr 2019
Risk adjustment, costs of care
Summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/03/in-the-news.htm
15 Mar 2019
A code for improving transitions of care
New Medicare code for transitional care management has seen low uptake but good patient outcomes.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/11/qa-code-for-improving-transitions-of-care.htm
15 Nov 2018
High costs among dual-eligible beneficiaries due mostly to long-term care
Among persistently high-cost patients covered by Medicare and Medicaid, 68.8% of spending was on long-term care and less than 1% was related to potentially preventable hospitalizations.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/03/4.htm
3 Oct 2018
Transitional care management yields benefit but is used rarely, study finds
An analysis of Medicare fee-for-service claims concluded that transitional care management is a promising delivery model innovation, while an editorial cautioned that payments may not be high enough to justify the extra work involved or may be targeted to the wrong place in the health care system.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/08/4.htm
8 Aug 2018
For delirium, manage environment as well as meds
Providing adequate lighting and reducing clutter are two examples.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/for-delirium-manage-environment-as-well-as-meds.htm
15 Jul 2018
Physicians identify many of their own admissions as preventable
Differences in risk assessment and training between ED and medicine were reported to be factors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/qa-physicians-identify-many-of-their-own-admissions-as-preventable.htm
15 Jul 2018
POCUS catches on
Credentialing and training hospitalists to use handheld ultrasounds.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2017/08/pocus-catches-on.htm
15 Aug 2017
Adding ezetimibe to statin therapy after ACS may decrease hospitalizations, study finds
Once the drug is available as a generic, it could reduce health care costs for high-risk patients after acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the industry-funded study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/24/3.htm
24 May 2017
HEART score appears safe for ED triage of chest pain patients
The HEART score uses a patient's History, Electrocardiogram, Age, Risk factors, and initial Troponin to predict risk of major adverse cardiac events after an ED visit for chest pain.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/04/26/4.htm
26 Apr 2017