Articles

Vitalware's experts and industry thought-leadership are often referenced in articles about the business of U.S. healthcare. Here is an informative selection of those industry news articles and blogs from leading publications and experts.

Clarifying Codes G0463 and Q3014: Hospital Billing for Services Furnished Using Telecommunications Technology

In April of this year, CMS introduced a temporary extraordinary circumstances relocation policy which allowed hospitals to temporarily relocate hospital departments to multiple locations in order to address care needs during the public health emergency. Unfortunately, this policy also created a great deal of confusion and inconsistency among providers regarding which code to bill when providing remote clinic visits.

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Part 3: Trauma Activation and the Emergency Department Revenue Cycle

With the ever-increasing attention to price transparency as a backdrop, charges for trauma activation — which can be quite expensive — are increasingly subject to public scrutiny and questioning. Every hospital needs to know its trauma activation policies and protocols, but as you will see, it’s also a topic well worth exploring from a revenue cycle perspective.

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Part 2: Fighting Emergency Department Charge Leakage: A Day in the Life of Revenue Integrity

Charge leakage, of any kind, is always detrimental to the financial health of a facility. Identification and management of leaks can present a great opportunity for remediation and ensure you earn every penny you deserve. The first step in turning problems into opportunities is to determine where the revenue leakage is occurring.

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Part 1: Emergency Department Charge Capture: Keys To Success

The emergency department for any hospital is an arena of significant human drama, consequence, and acuity on any given day. It’s also hugely important for the financial well-being of the hospital, as it is key to unplanned and episodic revenue for the hospital. The demands on personnel for both providing care and documenting it are acute and time-sensitive. The unique demands emergency medical care puts on providers places a premium on the value of planning and processes for charge capture.

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Latest Updates Related To COVID-19 Coding and Billing: July 31, 2020

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) continues to inspire changes to coding and billing practices and guidelines that impact physicians and other healthcare providers – as well as coding and billing professionals. Several changes were recently announced related to COVID-19 that all healthcare professionals should be aware of.

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2019 Inpatient Coding Audit Results: Insight for 2020 and Beyond

At Vitalware Revenue Integrity Services, one of the benefits we have of serving so many clients is getting the chance to synthesize the full breadth of data we see, and making note of common patterns that our team discovers. Both for our clients, and for those who may be considering the value of "outside" perspective when approaching auditing and process reviews, we wanted to share some of the insights our experts have gathered over the past year before heading into future 2020 audits.

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