Our friends at the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) held their 8 th annual conference last week. Aside from a few mishaps involving their crack team of CDI...
CMS may be committed to an ICD-10 implementation date of October 1, 2014, but Congress may think otherwise. House of Representatives bill H.R. 4015 is designed to patch the Sustainable Growth Rate...
Poor Finn. He’s heading for his first birthday, but he may not be in a partying mood. After Finn developed his fifth ear infection in six months, mom Melissa decided it was time to put tubes in his...
CMS recently posted agendas for what will be the last ICD-9-CM Coordination & Maintenance Committee meeting to address code updates for ICD-9 and ICD-10 before the partial code freeze is...
When coding with ICD-10, there may be terms that neither your coders nor your physicians are used to using. Now is the time to pass on this knowledge to your medical staff so they can understand what...
CMS added additional ICD-10 MLN educational resources to its website and will be hosting an ICD-10 National Provider Call August 22. The new MLN educational resources include two fact sheets and a...
CMS created a mini tempest in June when announced it would not conduct end-to-end testing for ICD-10. CMS has not reversed that decision, but will require MAC to conduct front-end testing in March...
We’re all thinking about documentation specificity needs in ICD-10-CM/PCS as we prepare of the October 1, 2014 compliance deadline. Increased communication between physicians and coders is paramount...
After HHS proposed year-long delay of ICD-10, questions emerged regarding the current ICD-9-CM code freeze. CMS confirmed that the code freeze will hold until ICD-10-CM/PCS is implemented regardless...
In ICD-10-CM, coders must report two codes to fully describe certain conditions. They will find “Use additional code” notes in the Tabular List at codes when they need to report a secondary code to...
