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Sep 30, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Alicia Gallegos |Kevin M. Klauer
Health information (HI) professionals often face a scope of professional and organizational challenges over the course of their careers.
Weak data policies and understaffed teams are two of the top obstacles that can slow workflows and impact efficiency for HI teams.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Kevin M. Klauer |Alicia Gallegos
By embracing guiding principles, we pave the pathway to our mission of empowering individuals to impact health.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Kevin M. Klauer |Damon Adams
With widespread evidence showing the link between overall patient health and social determinants of health (SDOH), organizations across the healthcare spectrum are zeroing in on improving their collection and use of SDOH data.
But despite broad agreement about the importance of SDOH data, efforts to capture and use such information widely differ, says Lauren Riplinger, JD, AHIMA chief public policy and impact officer.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Lisa Eramo |Kevin M. Klauer |Alicia Gallegos
Like most health systems nationwide, MaineHealth found itself faced with a shortage of medical coders. That’s when healthcare leaders began to ask this question: Why do two different coders (one inpatient and one outpatient) need to review and code the same operative report?
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Alicia Gallegos |Lisa Eramo |Kevin M. Klauer
Reporting social determinants of health (SDOH) data has become the new norm for many care settings after a government mandate took effect earlier this year.
All healthcare organizations that admit patients are required to screen for five social risk drivers in accordance with a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulation that took effect on Jan. 1, 2024.
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Jun 20, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | John Mccormack |Kevin M. Klauer |Alicia Gallegos
Weight loss is not easy, as the or obese can attest to. Providing obesity management services – and effectively documenting, coding, and billing for this work – is also challenging, as healthcare provider organizations can also confirm. While new weight loss treatments, primarily popular Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drugs, hold the potential to make weight loss a bit easier, they are simultaneously introducing even more complications into an already complex administrative process.
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May 31, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Alicia Gallegos |Kevin M. Klauer
Experts break down the information blocking rules and share guidance on how HI professionals can best prepare and comply with the regulations.
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May 31, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Lisa Eramo |Kevin M. Klauer |Alicia Gallegos
While institutional and professional medical claims accommodate up to 25 and 12 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes respectively, experts say this isn’t always enough space to meet new and emerging value-based payment and quality measure requirements. That’s especially true when you start adding Z codes for social determinants of health (SDOH) that have continued to expand in specificity and scope since they were first introduced in 2016.
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May 31, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Jennifer Lubell |Kevin M. Klauer |Alicia Gallegos
Health information (HI) professionals will be working on several fronts to comply with a new federal rule that affords patients and healthcare providers additional protection from investigations related to reproductive healthcare services.
Responding to the Dobbs v.
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Mar 21, 2024 | 
journal.ahima.org | Kevin M. Klauer |Alicia Gallegos
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