Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The 2024 ICD-10-CM files below contain information on the ICD-10-CM updates for FY 2024. These 2024 ICD-10-CM codes are to be used for discharges occurring from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024 and for patient encounters occurring from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2024.…… Continue reading FY 2024 ICD-10-CM Coding Guidelines and FY 2024 Conversion Table Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare On Thursday, July 6, 2023, the OIG posted two (2) Adverse Events Toolkits for Identifying Patient Harm. Toolkit: Medical Record Review Methodology             Provides an explanation of the OIG methodology, including details about our definition of            patient harm and how we categorized events by severity…… Continue reading Adverse Events Toolkits: Medical Record Review Methodology and Clinical Guidance for Identifying Patient Harm

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Please join the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, and her leadership team, who will provide an update on CMS’ recent accomplishments and how our cross-cutting initiatives are advancing CMS’ Strategic Plan. CMS serves the public as a trusted partner and steward dedicated to advancing…… Continue reading National Stakeholder Call with the CMS Administrator on July 18, 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) voted to again recommend annual influenza (flu) vaccination for everyone 6 months and older in the United States, and CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H. has adopted their recommendations. The guidance around vaccine administration to egg-allergic patients changed…… Continue reading CDC Director Adopts ACIP Flu Vaccination Recommendations for 2023-2024 Season

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is issuing this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory (June 26, 2023) to share information and notify clinicians, public health authorities, and the public about— Identification of locally acquired malaria cases (P. vivax) in two U.S. states (Florida [4]…… Continue reading Locally Acquired Malaria Cases Identified in the United States

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Office of the Actuary released projections of National Health Expenditures (NHE) and health insurance enrollment for the years 2022-2031. The report contains expected impacts from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), including that people with Medicare prescription drug coverage…… Continue reading CMS Office of the Actuary Releases 2022-2031 National Health Expenditure Projections

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has released its June 2023 Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System. Each June, as part of its mandate from the Congress, MedPAC reports on issues affecting the Medicare program as well as broader changes in health care…… Continue reading June 2023 MedPAC Report to the Congress: Medicare and the Health Care Delivery System

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Provider Preview Reports have been updated and are now available. These reports contain provider performance scores for quality measures, which will be published on Care Compare and Provider Data Catalog (PDC) during the September 2023 refresh. The data contained within the Preview Reports are…… Continue reading LTCH and IRF Provider Preview Reports Now Available June 2023

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted QSO-23-17-CAHon June 9, 2023 – same title as this blog. This QSO Memorandum is 2 pages in length.

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare (2 days ago), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a series of resources on keeping people covered as states restart routine Medicaid and CHIP renewals. Today, Wednesday, June 14th, please join CMS for a National Stakeholder…… Continue reading CMS National Stakeholder Call on Medicaid and CHIP Renewals: Important Updates and Call to Action, June 14 @ 1:00pm ET