Medaxiom Blog

Nicole Knight explains the importance of accurate coding and documentation and details helpful insights to improve in this area.

Failing to adequately capture a patient's risk through documentation and coding may lead to an inaccurately low level of attributed risk and eventually to reduced reimbursement, payment penalties and exclusion from markets. Nicole Knight wants you to think about how accurate and thorough documentation and coding can provide the best chance of shared savings and, in turn, help with the successful management of your patient population.

For some, the first reaction to change is fear. The same can be said for health systems when it comes to prioritizing big changes needed for health reform. In this week’s blog, Larry Sobal ponders complacency and complicity in health care.

The medical profession has never really had well organized ways to measure physician competency, whether it be cognitive, technical or integrative. Many doctors, of course, retain their skills and sharpness of mind into their 70s and beyond. But physicians are hardly immune to dementia, Parkinson’s disease, stroke and other ills of aging. Therefore, it would only make sense that we should be systematically and comprehensively evaluating physicians on some sort of ...