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...
I attended the live portion of the American Health Information Management Association ICD-10-CM training in Baltimore last week. It is definitely not for the faint-hearted! It was a good overview...
Can you believe it has been about 18 months since the Department of Health and Human Services announced in the Federal Register that ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS would be implemented on October 1, 2013?...
Now is the best time to consider the clinical documentation initiatives you need to implement in 2013. The preparation for ICD-10 has documentation needs first and foremost on everyone’s mind. Start...
HCPro is conducting research into how organizations are assessing their ICD-10 readiness. Click the link below to participate. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22C5AE44S33/
