At the recent American Health Information Management Association ICD-10 Summit in Washington, DC, several attendees were heard discussing the 3-day rule (sometimes called the 72-hour rule),...
It turns out that Punxsutawney Phil seeing his shadow, and thereby forecasting six more weeks of winter, wasn’t the most painful part of Groundhog Day. Phil picked a bad moment to suffer from stage...
By now you have probably heard that you need to train more than just your coders on ICD-10. Shelley Weems, RHIA, CCS, implementation lead for the Health Information Management Program Office for the...
What can we revise today at Stitch ‘Em Up Hospital? First, we need to know what falls under root operation revision in ICD-10-PCS. Is it a procedure where the physician alters a body part, such as a...
During this three-day training, we learned as much as possible about this new classification system. I received a letter in the mail right before leaving for the American Health Information...
Outpatient coders are getting very familiar with combination codes when it comes to procedure coding, thanks to the AMA. Coders have been seeing more and more combined procedures in recent years in...
Football season is underway in Anytown and we have some crazy players coming in to Fix ‘Em Up Clinic with some crazy-looking knee injuries. Quarterback Tom is in after suffering an unhappy triad of...
Go to your local bookstore, pick up a copy of Gray’s Anatomy (the book, not the television show), and flip though the illustrations. Alternately, you can Google “Gray’s anatomy illustrations.” They...
Coders use ICD-9-CM E codes to describe the accident, circumstance, event, or specific agent that caused a patient’s injury. In ICD-10-CM, these codes will not be prefaced with the letter ‘E,’ and...
Rule 12 of the 2010 ICD-10-CM Official Guidelines for Coding and Reporting reads: Reporting same diagnosis code more than once Each unique ICD-10-CM diagnosis code may be reported only once for an...
