In its November issue, the Journal of AHIMA published an article citing significantly lower costs for physician practices to transition to ICD-10 than the numbers supplied by Nachimson Advisors in a...
With flu season just around the corner (hey, where did summer go?), Melissa took her 4-year-old son Andrew to Dr. Spock, the pediatrician, for his flu shot Wednesday. With a minimum of fuss (and a...
I spent the weekend reading the 2016 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule. Not the most thrilling reading ever (government-ese should be classified as a foreign language). I did...
The American Medical Association (AMA) is pushing for a two-year safe harbor for physicians so the doctors won’t be penalized for “errors, mistakes, and malfunctions relating to the transition.” That...
Earlier this week, we posted the following ICD-10 pop quiz question submitted by Asad Ali Rizvi of Quadax Inc: Because ICD-10-CM is alphanumeric, what should you keep in mind about the code structure...
On the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me five golden rings. Hey wait, there are only four rings here. Where did the other one go? Oh no, little Andrew shoved it up his nose. Time to...
Many musculoskeletal conditions are a result of previous injury or trauma to a site, or are recurrent conditions. If a patient presents with a bone, joint or muscle conditions that are the result of...
On the 10th day of Christmas my true love gave to me 10 lords a-leaping. My house isn’t big enough for all of these dancers. Several of them mistimed their leaps and collided midair and they’re down...
Jeff went on vacation to Hawaii three weeks ago to enjoy some sun, sand, and surfing. He came back with some cool photos and a broken ankle. Apparently, the parking lot at the beach did him in even...
After a vigorous, last-ditch push by the AMA for a two-year transition period after implementation to protect physicians from all ICD-CM coding errors and mistakes, CMS and AMA made a joint...
