It may come as a surprise, but CMS has an excellent website to help with the transitions to 5010 and ICD-10. This site is actually easy to use and fairly comprehensive compared to some of their...
Poor Finn is having a rough week. It started out well as he spent Sunday with his folks and older brother at an amusement park being as amused as a 6-month-old can be. Things started going downhill...
Add another nail in the “delay ICD-10 because the industry isn’t ready” coffin. CMS d eclared its end-to-end testing week from January 26 through February 3 a success . A total of 661 volunteers...
Small rural facilities that haven’t yet started planning for ICD-10-CM/PCS shouldn’t panic yet, but they also shouldn’t delay much longer, says Jeff Wieters, RHIA, senior technical advisory...
Well, it’s not quite the polar vortex of 2014, but it’s definitely polar bear weather out there. As in, polar bears are the only ones who appreciate this kind of cold. We’re starting to see some...
Poor Paul, he just wanted to take his black Labrador Molly to the vet for her checkup. Instead he ended up needing a doctor. Paul put down a sheet in his truck so Molly wouldn’t have to sit on the...
Melissa took her four nephews sledding over the weekend to the boys’ delight. They had a great time. Aunt Melissa, however, didn’t escape the adventure unscathed. While descending the (not really)...
ICD-10-PCS is vastly different from the ICD-9-CM procedure codes inpatient coders currently use. By now, you probably know that ICD-10-PCS codes must be seven characters in length. The letters I and...
Over the summer, I was in the process of going through the American Health Information Management Association Academy for ICD-10-CM for trainers. I had completed the online, self-paced part of the...
CMS has been releasing ICD-10 National Coverage Determination (NCD) “omnibus” transmittals since September 2012, which gives providers some information about CMS’ coverage policies moving forward...
