CMS and the American Medical Association (AMA) may have made peace regarding ICD-10, but it seems some members of Congress didn’t get the memo. Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Tom E. Price, R-Ga...
As healthcare professionals, we’re all familiar to some degree with HIPAA. You know, the law that makes it illegal to release protected health information, among other things. Hospital employees have...
One of the great things about healthcare and medicine is you can always learn something new. Today’s odd but true condition is exploding head syndrome. (I love the Internet.) If you have ever...
Which tasks have you completed on your ICD-10 implementation list? We want to know. Our sister publication , Medical Records Briefing, is conducting a benchmarking survey on ICD-10 implementation,...
In late June, CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2014 ICD-10-CM codes without the updated guidelines. Those guidelines are now available on the CDC website ...
At the annual American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) convention in September, AHIMA practice resources managers Kathy DeVault, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, and Ann Zeisset, RHIT, CCS, CCS-...
News flash: The sky is NOT falling. You don’t need to press the panic button when you think about the transition to ICD-10. It’s time to prepare, practice, and plan. The transition will be a huge...
Everyone is afraid of something. Some people are terrified of spiders. For others, the mere sight of a snake is enough to send them running in the other direction and screaming at the top of their...
Here’s a stat that will come as no surprise to most coders: approximately 50% of physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners have no clue about ICD-10. Of the remaining 50%, only a very...
HHS will delay implementation of ICD-10 by one year, from October 1, 2013 to October 1, 2014. HHS announced the delay August 24 as part of the Administrative Simplification: Adoption of a Standard...
