How many of you are worried about getting physicians on board with the ICD-10 transition? We all know physicians are busy people. So how do you get them engaged in learning about the increased...
Don’t look now, but Congress is examining ICD-10 implementation again. The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on healthcare will hold a hearing at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, February 11 ,...
In a recent post , I talked about my experience attending an American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Academy for ICD-10 trainer session. While I am excited about certain aspects of...
Until HHS issues a clear and direct statement on a final ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation date, some healthcare entities will stop any progress to compliance with new ICD-10 requirements, according to...
ICD-10-PCS introduces plenty of new concepts. One that could cause coder confusion involves how to report a procedure when the physician changes the approach. The ICD-10-PCS guidelines state: If...
In a recent JustCoding.com mini-poll, we asked subscribers the following question: Has your organization established a timeline for the transition to ICD-10? This is the breakdown of the 151...
During AHIMA’s two-day ICD-10-CM/PCS and Computer-Assisted Coding Summit April 22-23, AHIMA ran some real-time polls with attendees texting in their responses. The results of the polls provide some...
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...
