Many ICD-10 authorities agree that there are a number of myths and misconceptions floating around about the transition to this new coding system. So why not get information straight from the horse's...
The switch to ICD-10-CM will change more than just your code choices. It will also change how physician offices practice medicine. All of your offices' policies will have to be revised to fit ICD-10-...
Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back. (Kudos if you know I appropriated that from the movie Gladiator .) History is full of weird circumstances and odd injuries that lead to death...
Being a Jedi knight is hard work. And it’s dangerous, especially when your father is out to kill you and your friend gets encased in carbonite. Intrepid coders that we are, we will brave the frozen...
The network of relationships between the ICD-9-CM and the ICD-10-CM code sets is named the General Equivalence Mappings (GEMs) . It’s like trying to translate from one language to another. Sometimes...
It was almost inevitable. The possibility of another ICD-10 delay was brought up during the AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS and CAC Summit in Baltimore April 24. And just as quickly as it was raised, the...
You may remember that the American Medical Association (AMA) has been pushing for an end to ICD-10 since 2012. During its recent House of Delegates meeting, the AMA reinforced its position that ICD-...
For those who work in environments where codes from category V57 (care involving use of rehabilitation procedures) are a staple, you be surprised to learn that when it comes to ICD-10-CM, all V57...
What did you get for Valentine’s Day? Flowers? Chocolate? Mono? It is the kissing disease after all. ICD-9-CM includes only one code for infectious mononucleosis: 075. That code includes glandular...
One of the things I have always liked about ICD-9-CM is that no matter how poor the documentation, if a code requires a fourth and/or fifth digit the manual always gives what I call the “out” by...
