Areas that may impact the overall rate of reimbursement

Areas that may impact the overall rate of reimbursement

Areas that may impact the overall rate of reimbursement

As a manager in a medical records department for a large, urban hospital, questions have arisen regarding why different datasets are used throughout the organization. The main data set, the Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS), is reported to The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to allow for comparison across similar hospitals. Create a training presentation using PowerPoint, Camtasia, or other presentation software discussing the UHDDS.

Your presentation should be a minimum of 7 slides with speaker’s notes or recorded material, not including the title slide or reference slide and have the following information:

Summarize what the UHDDS is and why it is important to the organization

Include the required information that is reported on the UHDDS form Discuss two areas that may impact the overall rate of reimbursement and present ideas on how to decrease the impact

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.