We’re still waiting for CMS to release the interim final rule on the new ICD-10 implementation date, but we did get some news on the ICD-10 front this week. The Office of Budget and Management...
You will need to make significant changes to your superbill due to the fact that ICD-10-CM contains a considerably larger number of codes than ICD-9-CM. At the American Academy of Professional Coders...
So how would you like to explain this accident to your physician? Doctor, I was crossing the street wearing ice skates and was hit by a bicycle. Believe it or not, there’s an ICD-10-CM code for just...
The majority of respondents in our recent (unscientific) JustCoding poll identified physician documentation as their biggest concern heading into the ICD-10 transition. No one should be surprised by...
So, once we start using ICD-10 codes, will you still be able to use a super bill? A super bill is a cheat sheet that many facilities and practices develop, on which they list their top diagnostic...
Everybody likes a shortcut. We want to get things done faster, arrive home sooner, finish tasks more quickly. Generally shortcuts are good. Unless you’re talking about physician documentation. Then...
Over the river and through the woods to the Fix ‘Em Up Clinic we go. Not exactly where our patients want to spend Thanksgiving (and neither do we), but we’re here to coding their holiday mishaps...
CMS released three FAQs about ICD-10 billing, including how to bill encounters that cross the ICD-10 implementation date. That’s October 1, 2014 in case you forgot. And a claim cannot contain both...
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me seven swans a-swimming. To be completely accurate, he took a group of us on a road trip to a pond where the swans swam in blissful ignorance of...
And the new proposed ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation date is (drum roll, please)…October 1, 2014. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the new date as part...
