This week’s news highlights tips for sleeping well on airplanes, reimbursements for ICD-10 coding errors, and more.
- If you’re hoping to catch 40 winks next time you board a flight to a locum tenens assignment—or anywhere else for that matter—you may want to take a peek at these airplane sleep tips from flight attendants, provided by Yahoo Travel.
- Minor mistakes made on ICD-10 claims will be reimbursed for one year past the October 1, 2015, deadline, according to a recent announcement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). As reported by Modern Healthcare, the erroneously coded claims must be in the same broad family as the correct one.
- CMS also announced plans to update its Hospital Compare rankings with critical access data. According to FierceHealthcare, this information will supplement the five-star-scale quality ratings released in April, which were based solely on patient experiences.
- The Institute of Medicine released several recommendations for improving cardiac arrest survival rates following a report that revealed less than 6 percent of people who experience cardiac arrest outside a hospital survive, as do less than a quarter of hospital cardiac arrest patients, as shared by AHA News.
- Before you purchase your next piece of travel gear, consider consulting Wirecutter’s comprehensive list of recommendations. Travelers will find well-researched top picks in numerous categories, including packing, flying/riding, connecting, “just in case,” and more.
Happy Friday!
