Coders play a crucial role in ensuring compliance, and the FY 2013 IPPS final rule , released August 1, gives them many reasons to showcase their skills.
Inpatient-only procedures are those that CMS has determined providers must perform on an inpatient basis because they are invasive and require at least 24 hours of postoperative recovery time or monitoring.
Now that CMS has finalized a 2014 implementation date for ICD-10-CM/PCS, increasingly more hospitals may turn to computer-assisted coding (CAC) to help ease the transition and mitigate anticipated productivity losses, says Angie Comfort, RHIT, CCS, director of HIM solutions at AHIMA in Chicago.
As you may know, ICD-9-CM V codes have been expanded to include higher body mass indexes (BMI). More specifically, code category V85.4x denotes a BMI of 40 or more in an adult. How can you calculate BMI?
