ICD-10 CAN Help Physicians Give Better Patient Care
Clinicians should be leaders in the healthcare industry by providing accurate data, accurate analysis of the data and change in healthcare to continuously improve the value their patients receive.
Hospital Readmissions Penalties Interactive Table
Update August 2, 2013 - CMS published a list of 2,225 hospitals in 49 states that will lose up to 2% of their Medicare reimbursement that had too many patient readmission within 30 days of discharge because of three medical conditions: heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. Under the PPACA, the maximum penalty will increase to 3% by 2015 and expand to include re-admissions for other medical conditions. ICD-10, a standard the describes the condition of the patient, will modify these quality measures when it goes into effect. We have published an interactive, searchable version of the penalties, by city, state, county and hospital for the healthcare industry and consumers to use to easily find the data relevant to their geography or organization.
ICD-10 Clinical Scenarios and Medical Concepts Help Understanding of Reimbursement Risk
ICD-10 clinical scenarios can be used to understand potential risks and variations in reimbursement for procedures that are provided after October 1, 2013.
Increasing Health Data Interoperability, BigData, Cloud, Exchange, ICD-10 Lay Foundation for Accountable Care
These are important foundations that enable ubiquitous digital health data in a standard interchange, enabling in-depth analysis and increasingly, Cloud and Software as a Service methods to deploy, store and use the information to improve healthcare. These in turn are important foundations to enable Accountable Care. ICD-10 is the new data standard that will express the condition of the patient and how providers get reimbursed.