HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2016 Issue 13 (April)

Joint replacement model requires CDI evolution

April 5th, 2016

Shannon Newell, RHIA, CCS, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, explains how under the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement, acute care hospitals in selected geographic areas assume quality and payment accountability for retrospectively calculated bundled payments for lower extremity joint replacement episodes, and how this now requires a CDI evolution.

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