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Regulatory News the latest actions of agencies monitoring health care
Staff Contact: Andrew Wheeler The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issues updates to MLN Connects Provider eNews. eNews includes information about national provider calls, meetings, events, announcements and other MLN educational product updates. The latest issue provides updates and summaries of the following.
HIDI Tech Connect
Staff Contact: Steve Warchol Join Hospital Industry Data Institute staff in an upcoming webinar to learn how to data mine changes in diagnosis-related group discharges from ICD-9 to ICD-10. The reports provide hospitals the ability to compare changes to discern how the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 coding may impact reimbursement. Andrew Wheeler, MHA’s Vice President of Federal Finance, will provide further insight on the reports as they pertain to hospital operations and finances. This webinar is part of HIDI’s monthly focus sessions and free to any hospital team member. The webinar will be presented at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 29. Click here to register. Back To Top
Noteworthy
Staff Contact: Jim Mikes The National Rural Health Association is sponsoring a free webinar on 340B audits, which will provide a brief overview of the current Health Resources and Services Administration auditing environment, provide real world audit insight gained through supporting HRSA audits, and highlight best practices for self-auditing a 340B program. The webinar is schedule at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 15. Registration is required. Back To Top
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