Eighty-four percent of providers experienced no major problems with early ICD-10 acknowledgement testing, according to a recent AAPC survey of more than 2,000 providers.
Coding professionals may inappropriately assign codes from parts of the medical record where the doctors, early in the workup of a complex patient, were describing differential diagnoses in their evaluation of the patient. Robert S. Gold, MD, discusses whether coders should report every diagnosis mentioned in a patient’s chart.
A hiatus from Recovery Auditor scrutiny may have allowed HIM professionals to focus on other issues, but Laura Legg, RHIT, CCS, explores why HIM departments need to gear up for Recovery Auditors’ return.
CMS made incorrect payments to hospitals for established patient clinic visits estimated at approximately $4.6 million in 2012, according to a recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit.
The reason a patient comes in is to a facility not always the same as the reason the physician admitted the patient. Brush up on the guidelines for principal diagnosis selection.
CMS accepted 76% of all national ICD-10 test claims submitted during its November 2014 ICD-10 acknowledgement testing week. More than 500 providers, suppliers, billing companies, and clearinghouses participated in the tests, which identified no issues with Medicare's system.
In the first part of a two-part series, Shelley C. Safian, PhD, CCS-P, CPC-H, CPC-I, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, discusses the use of Z codes in ICD-10-CM.
