New guidelines have been published regarding the diagnosis and treatment of adults with community-acquired pneumonia by the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America (Metlay et al., 2019).
Due to the frequency of diagnoses and treatments for breast cancer, it’s more important than ever for inpatient coders to make sure they are reporting these diagnoses and procedures with the utmost accuracy.
HIM directors’ and managers’ salaries made gains in some areas, but others may be falling behind, according to respondents of HCPro’s 2019 HIM director and manager salary survey.
As the cost of healthcare continues to skyrocket, payers are looking for ways to save and want to make sure that claims reflect correct information and that the care provided was clinically justified.
Getting clean, compliant claims out the door is one of the foundations of a sound inpatient hospital. A robust process for handling claim edits and managing denials will go a long way toward supporting that goal.
Very few diagnoses have caused as much gnashing of teeth as sepsis has for inpatient coders and providers alike. Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has weighed in on the matter and is proposing coding changes , which, if adopted, will go into effect October 2020.
Let’s take a deep dive into the recently released coding guidance and documentation tips for these illnesses. Note that since vaping-related guidance and statistics are ever changing, this information is up to date as of October 2019.
According to ACDIS’ recent CDI Week Industry Survey , which included an extended section on CDI staffing practices, only 37% of respondents said they had HIM/coding backgrounds represented in their CDI departments.
Now that October 1 has passed, we are in full swing with the updated ICD-10-PCS code set for fiscal year (FY) 2020. There are now 77,559 total ICD-10-PCS codes for us to work with.
