Posts by Norwood Staffing
What Would Nick Do? On Building Relationships and Rebuilding a Life, with Mike Behringer
When I started Off the Record, I wanted to launch a program that served the broader industry that serves the health record. That means, most of my guests work in the HIM/coding, CDI, case management, and trauma/oncology registry fields. But I also host folks who support the mid-revenue cycle—consulting, staffing, sales, legal, tech, and from…
Read MoreNorwood welcomes CDI expert Deanne Wilk to Solutions team
We’d like to welcome the latest edition to our Norwood Solutions team… Deanne Wilk! If you’ve been involved in ACDIS and/or the CDI profession over the last decade, odds are you’ve seen Deanne. She served on the ACDIS advisory board (2017-2020) where she helped develop industry guidance and white papers. If you haven’t seen her…
Read MoreGood coding, CDI Practices can Reduce CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Penalties
By Brian Murphy Is your hospital among the nearly 2,300 dinged for excessive readmissions (“excessive” as defined by the parameters of the CMS Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, or HRRP)? The latest HRRP numbers are out. Kaiser Health News always does a great job covering the details. Link below. Per KHN, CMS evaluated 2.5 years of…
Read MoreCoding Tip: Reporting additional diagnoses in the outpatient setting
Are you one of those coding professionals who anxiously awaits the quarterly release of AHA Coding Clinic? There’s nothing like that feeling when you open the latest issue and read through the latest and greatest nuggets of wisdom. It is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get! Sometimes it’s…
Read MoreChatGPT, problem lists, and Recovery Auditors… oh my!
Three CDI and coding related thoughts … A dark vision of ChatGPT. In case you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a new AI-powered program called ChatGPT that can generate readable (perhaps good? At least usually quite understandable) copy from prompts entered by a human user. This development has generated angst and anxiety, but…
Read MoreBoston strong: Climbing the U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals rankings with CDI Director Deb Jones
Since taking on the CDI director role at Brigham at Women’s Hospital in October 2017, Deb Jones has made big changes with big impact. These include: A deep focus on risk adjustment and mortality reviews. Boston is an incredibly competitive healthcare environment with 25 hospitals operating within the city. Patients have a choice of…
Read MoreAHA critiques Medicare Advantage, makes recommendations regarding sepsis criteria, SDOH, and medical necessity determinations
By Brian Murphy The American Hospital Association’s commentary to CMS on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program CY 2024 proposed rule is a good read … if you are a CDI and coding policy wonk who likes this sort of thing. As I do. Because it offers a candid look into who wields the ultimate power…
Read MoreThe problems with the problem list are many, including invalid HCC assignment and compliance risks
The problem list. (I can’t bear to say, “it’s a problem,” because that’s almost as cliché as, “if it’s not documented, it’s not done.”) But I went ahead and just said both. Anyway, the problem list is both of source of great information for coding and CDI specialists for query, while also…
Read MoreAlways learning, always growing: Meet Keisha Downes, CDI Director, Tufts Medicine
CDI Director for Tufts Medicine. Recently returned to school to earn her MBA. Contributor to, and co-author of, the latest ACDIS-AHIMA physician query practice brief. Speaker at the upcoming ACDIS conference. And all-around cool person. Keisha Downes, BSN, RN, CCDS, CCS, joined me recently to talk about her impressive career in healthcare, a path that…
Read MoreNorwood named one of the Top 100 Staffing Companies to Work For in 2023
Hey, we here at Norwood like to think we’re a pretty good staffing (and consulting) firm to work for. Of course, we’re a little biased. But now, we don’t have to say it ourselves! We’re incredibly proud/stoked to announce that the World Staffing Awards have named Norwood as a Top Staffing Company to Work for…
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