Worried that your vendors won't be ready for ICD-10? CMS has a tip sheet for talking with your vendors on its website. In addition, CMS recently added five new resources: Introduction to ICD-10...
CMS announced that it is postponing the eHealth Provider Webinar on ICD-10 compliance that was scheduled for October 1. CMS has not announced a reschedule date.
Labor Day might mark the unofficial end of summer, but sadly, it's not the end of barbecue mishaps at the Fix 'Em Up Clinic. Matt, who last year survived flaming tomato napalm, decided to grill up...
What do you get when you combine a full moon and Friday the 13th? Some really odd injuries at the Fix ‘Em Up Clinic. Fortunately, we here at the clinic suffer from neither paraskevidekatriaphobia (...
Coders and clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists have different perspectives and priorities even on common diagnoses. HCPro boot camp instructors Shannon E. McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P,...
As an AHIMA ICD-10 certified trainer, I have been doing a lot of work on various ICD-10 projects. When it comes to working with the new coding system, I find myself wondering whether the first ICD-10...
We may have a new ICD-10 implementation date…or maybe not. In the IPPS proposed rule , released April 30, CMS states on page 648, “The ICD-10-CM/PCS transition is scheduled to take place on October 1...
Ears are moving up in ICD-10-CM. In ICD-9-CM, they have to share space with the eyes. In ICD-10-CM, they get their own chapter. They also get a lot more codes. Fortunately, many of those additional...
Do you have a burning ICD-10 question that you would like to have answered? Whether it's a coding question, an inquiry about how to manage your HIM/coding staff, or a question about how to navigate...
Gerri Walk, senior manager of technical training for HRS in Baltimore, had the absolute best reason for learning to code in ICD-10. During the 2013 AHIMA National Conference in Atlanta, Gerri...
