A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that administration of piperacillin-tazobactam among patients with suspected sepsis was associated with a higher mortality rate and increased duration of organ dysfunction compared with cefepime administration.
CMS recently published the fiscal year 2025 ICD-10-PCS code set and guidelines. Although CMS made no changes to the guidelines, the update includes 371 new codes, 61 deleted codes, and three new tables.
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that four popular pretest risk assessment models for evaluating risk of hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism in inpatients did “not perform particularly well.”
A Journal of the American Medical Association study found that ICD-10-CM influenza codes accurately represented cases of positive diagnoses in pediatric patients, but their sensitivity was modest.
Despite the expansion of codes that came with the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10-CM, the majority of codes for inflammatory arthritis were not frequently used in 2015 through 2021, researchers found.
CMS’ fiscal year 2025 IPPS proposed rule and fact sheet, published April 10, includes proposals for a 2.6% payment increase, a new bundled payment program, code updates, and other policy changes.
The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study that found that high-flow nasal cannula protocols were associated with a 6.1% reduction in ICU admissions among children.
CMS will be holding its next ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee meeting March 19-20. The committee will deliberate applications for new ICD-10-PCS and ICD-10-CM code assignments. If approved, the codes will become effective October 1, 2024.
A recent study has suggested that COVID-19 patients who have a history of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at an increased risk of sepsis, shock, and acute kidney injury.
The CDC posted its updated 2024 ICD-10-CM guidelines in January that include a sequencing update for sepsis due to postprocedural infection. The guidelines will take effect April 1.
The AHA responded with potential provider concerns to the government’s recent request for information (RFI) as it prepares for the potential transition from ICD-10 to ICD-11 for morbidity coding.
A recent ProPublica article found that nearly 30,000 Medicare patients may have received atherectomy procedures prematurely or unnecessarily, resulting in millions of dollars in reimbursement.
U.S. government civil healthcare fraud settlements exceeded $1.6 billion in 2022, according to the recently released 2022 Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Annual Report.
The Journal of the American Medical Association recently released a study that analyzed social determinants of health and other conditions associated with lower-limb amputation in the U.S.’ most populated areas. The study found that several factors corresponded with an increased risk of amputation.
Children diagnosed with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) had a readmission rate of 27.8% in the first year after discharge, with half of those readmissions occurring within two months, according to a recent study in JAMA Network Open.
Approximately 33% of patients who experienced a first-time atrial fibrillation (AF) episode while hospitalized for noncardiac reasons had additional AF episodes up to one year after being discharged, according to a study recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine .
A recent Office of Inspector General report found that CMS paid $41.4 million in improper payments to acute care hospitals for claims that were assigned incorrect discharge status codes.
CMS recently published an infographic that defines social determinants of health (SDOH), explains the significance of capturing them, and lists which SDOH codes will go into effect October 1.
