To facilitate full and accurate Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding, it is crucial that providers take a disciplined approach to documenting medical encounters in patient records. The AAPC  suggests providers use the acronym “MEAT” to ensure accurate HCC coding and proper documentation:

What trends are impacting healthcare organizations this year? Where do leaders anticipate their focus will be in three-to-five years? To get a pulse on what industry leaders are thinking, Huron surveyed 300 healthcare executives across the U.S.

The home might grow noisy and crowded in the years to come. 

On the surface, gas stations and urgent care centers don't have a lot in common. But a deeper dive into their business models reveals striking similarities, Lou Ellen Horwitz, CEO of the Urgent Care Association, told KFF Health News.

Becker's asked C-suite executives from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. to share their organization's areas of growth for the next few years. 

Highlights from our conversation with Thomas Jefferson University’s Judd Hollander, MD, Senior Vice President of Healthcare Delivery Innovation, and Colleen Mallozzi, MBA, RN, Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer.

Healthcare C-suites are zeroing in on system "redesigns" to provide more care and services with fewer staff members and tighter margins than ever before.

Ask anyone to name healthcare's emerging disruptors, and Amazon will be among the top three – if not No. 1. The company with a $6.7 billion Q2 profit has a strong chokehold on the industry's hypothetical thinking. 

Anesthesiology plays a critical role across all facets of perioperative and procedural services. With clinical expertise in pre-, intra-, and post-operative care, your anesthesia team has the potential to build strong networks with surgeons, nurses, and other peers in perioperative services and facility operations. These ties can enhance your existing surgical services to save time, reduce costs, and improve your facility’s brand among surgeons and patients.

Hospital and health system leaders have various issues demanding their attention. Among the list is crafting strategies to provide the most effective care access for people.

On July 27, two health systems reported they were nixing the chief operating officer role, adding to a growing list of C-suites reevaluating the position. 

Hospitals and health systems have spent years sounding the alarm: there are not nearly enough working nurses in the field to meet patient demand.

Leading companies like Uber, Google, Delta Airlines and UPS deliver value by using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze historical data, predict what will happen and suggest the next right action. By applying these best practices in healthcare sector, hospitals and health systems can improve the patient experience, as well as the bottom line. 

Chesterfield, Mo.-based Mercy recently realigned into three divisions, a decision that represents a rapidly growing health system under the crunch of industry pressures. 

Data is an incredible resource for healthcare providers, but many organizations don’t know just how powerful a tool it can be. At a time when competition for staffing is staggering, budgets are squeezed by inflation, and denials are surging—it can be especially challenging to allocate appropriate attention to your metrics. According to Senior Vice President of Customer Care at Med-Metrix, Victor Zamora, a mistake he sees client partners make over and over again is “not monitoring key performance indicators as tightly as they should.” This comes at more of a cost than you might expect.

Texas Children’s Hospital consolidates seven business systems on Oracle to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the employee experience

On July 13, New Orleans-based Ochsner Health and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health announced they signed a letter of intent to partner on expanding access to care for adults 65 and older. 

New Orleans-based Ochsner Health and Winston-Salem, N.C.-based Novant Health have signed a letter of intent to partner on expanding access to care for adults 65 and older, the health systems announced in a July 13 news release.

Health systems across the country have outsourced administrative functions to UnitedHealth Group's Optum in an effort to cut costs and streamline operations.

Providence, a 51-hospital health system based in Renton, Wash., is exiting office space in downtown Seattle as part of the organization's flexible work model strategy, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker's on July 12.