Documentation opportunities abound in ICD-10-CM Chapter 13 (musculoskeletal system). The official ICD-10-CM Coding Guidelines provide us with plenty of instructions. The guidelines include...
The Fourth of July is in the books for another year and once again, we saw an interesting assortment of patients in the Fix ‘Em Up Clinic over the weekend. Let’s take a look at some of the more...
Do you know what you don’t know about ICD-10? Do you know where your knowledge gaps are? Unfortunately, the answer is probably no. More than half of the people who responded to our completely...
Inpatient coders and clinical documentation improvement specialists are very familiar with CCs and MCCs. After all, they help determine the MS-DRG assignment for a particular inpatient stay. ICD-10-...
What happens in Vegas might stay in Vegas, but when things go wrong in Atlantic City, people end up at Fix ‘Em Up Clinic. Today, we have several bachelor party victims who made the clinic their first...
Get ready to say goodbye to Coding Clinic for ICD-9 , and hello to Coding Clinic for ICD-10 . The AHA will cease publication of its ICD-9 guidance, but is already planning for an ICD-10-CM/PCS...
Just when I thought that ICD-10 would resolve those annoying coding guideline and definition inconsistencies, I have discovered that some will still exist in ICD-10, too. Oh no—say it ain’t so! The...
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists are a passionate group and they love ACDIS director Brian Murphy. They love him so much, in fact, that his appearance in the exhibit hall at the...
When we talk about root operations in ICD-10-PCS, we often focus on the 31 root operations in the Medical and Surgical section of the manual. After all, we’re going to use those codes the most and...
When coding for neoplasms in ICD-10-CM, coders will notice some differences in clinical documentation and sequencing. ICD-10-CM and ICD-9-CM coding for neoplams share some similarities, but ICD-10-CM...
