Blog by Jen Miff, President of the DFWHC Foundation The DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation has a rich history of supporting patient safety improvements, quality analyses and metrics, and community health use cases through its robust, longitudinal data sets. A little-known fact, however, is that the DFWHC Foundation also offers subscription-based access plans to the […]
Posts Tagged ‘THCIC’
THCIC assessing errors for claims ineligible for THCIC reporting
The Texas Health Care Information Collection (THCIC) is assessing errors for claims identified as being ineligible for required state reporting. Claims with CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) and HCPC (Healthcare Common Procedure Coding) codes identified as required to report to THCIC are being assessed errors at System 13. The Dallas Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) and […]
THCIC announces issue with 5010 specifications
The Texas Health Care Information Collection (THCIC) has announced an issue with the 5010 specification released in January 2012. In the specification, revenue code 320 was omitted from the list of revenue codes required to be included in the outpatient data set. All 2012 submissions for Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) member facilities have been […]
Present On Admission (POA) Submission
Important for Analysis (Part 1 of 3)
The Texas Health Care Information Collection (THCIC) releases yearly quality reports for each of the hospitals based on the Agency for Healthcare Quality (AHRQ) indicators. These reports do not take into account the possibility of certain diagnosis, such as an infection, that might have been present on admission. This could be interpreted incorrectly and appear […]
We submit required hospital data in the 5010 format to THCIC
If you are not already submitting your required inpatient and outpatient data in a HIPAA 5010 billing format, then, you are behind the eight ball. The Texas Health Care Information Collection (THCIC) agency will require all data submissions, inpatient and outpatient, beginning in July to be submitted in the new 5010 format The Inpatient and […]
Present On Admission (POA)
THCIC releases to the public yearly quality reports for each of the hospitals based on the Agency for Healthcare Quality (AHRQ) indicators. Currently, those reports do not take into account the possibility of certain diagnosis, such as an infection, that might have been present on admission. This could be intrepreted incorrectly and appear to be […]
Texas Health Care Information Collection
You may be wondering who is the Texas Health Care Information Collection (THCIC) agency and why do we care what they do? THCIC was created by the 74th Texas Legislature in 1995. THCIC’s primary purpose is to provide data enabling Texas consumers and health plan purchasers to make informed health care decisions. THCIC collects data […]
Alphabet Soup
Today there seems to be an acronym for almost everything. Every industry has their own special language they have developed to “streamline” communication. We are certainly no exception as we commonly see DFWHC Foundation referenced on many of our documents. Foundation is easy to figure out, but many people ask what does DFWHC stand for? […]