My head is going to explode. This is seriously epic, end of the world pain. It’s a 20 on the pain scale. It wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t also feel like I was going to throw up. And the light is...
You’ve heard about temperatures so hot you can fry an egg on the sidewalk, right? (I don’t recommend eating the egg afterwards.) It turns out the polar vortex was so cold you could freeze boiling...
Getting clinicians onboard and trained for the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS will be one of the biggest challenges for most facilities, according to Patricia A.C. Hildebrand, MSN, RN, AHIMA-approved...
Today’s rehearsal for the children’s Christmas play at Anytown Middle School was unforgettable for all of the wrong reasons. Just look at the waiting room at the Fix ‘Em Up Clinic. First in to see Dr...
When it comes to training staff members for the upcoming transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS, not everyone has the same needs or characteristics. They don’t even belong to the same group of shareholders...
Ah, the dogs days of summer. An evil time when, according to the ancient Romans, the sea boils, dogs grow mad, and men contract, among other diseases, burning fevers, hysterics, and frenzies,...
Many experts in the healthcare community have compared the transition to ICD-10 to Y2K. So how do you estimate the costs associated with such an enormous undertaking? There are the obvious costs...
ICD-10-CM includes some specific guidelines to help coders decide when to code for a current malignancy or a personal history of malignancy. The physician excises a primary malignancy but the patient...
There’s a bigger picture to the preparation for ICD-10 than just coding productivity. The bigger picture includes doing the process improvement now that is needed to break down all barriers to...
[caption id="attachment_2698" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Hey, look, it's a friend of Wile E.!"] [/caption] Wile E. Coyote is back in the Acme ED, this time with a broken arm, leg, pelvis...
