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The degradation of clinical documentation in electronic health records has a direct impact on patient care and quality metrics, and is due to factors such as a lack of respect for documentation as a means of communication, a lack of understanding on the connection between documentation and codes/reimbursement, and a lack of proper training on best documentation practices. To improve documentation, institutions should implement reciprocal auditing and consider a documentation timeout to emphasize the responsibility of documenting for advancing patient care.

Highlights The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on April 27, 2021, released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) and Long Term Care Hospital (LTCH) Prospective Payment System (PPS) Proposed Rule, which will affect discharges occurring on or after Oct. 1, 2021. The Proposed Rule would update the payment policies and annual payment rates for the inpatient payment system, update various quality programs and evaluate New Technology Add-On Payment (NTAP) applications, among other changes. Comments on the Proposed Rule are due by June...

Seema Verma is administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This article was coauthored with Alexandra Mugge, deputy chief health informatics officer at CMS, and Shannon Sartin, chief technology officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the White House Office of American Innovation, publicly announced our commitment to ensuring that patients would have access to their healthcare data wherever and whenever they need it, and we commenced on a...