It's time for another pop quiz everyone! Let's use the ICD-10 tools we have at our disposal to try to crosswalk an ICD-9-CM code we use today to ICD-10-CM. ICD-9-CM code 512.0 (Spontaneous tension...
Based on the prevalence of commercials for acid reflux remedies, you’d think the entire country suffered from some sort of digestive disease. Maybe some of it comes from coders who are sick to their...
You have one more chance to participate in CMS’ end-to-end testing. The agency is currently looking for approximately 850 volunteers for the June 1-5 testing week. You can volunteer on your MAC’s...
Aside from emphasizing that October 1, 2013, will be the date that everyone will begin to use ICD-10, Pat Brooks, senior technical advisor at CMS, explained the following during the March 23 ICD-10...
CMS recently posted a file that identified duplicate codes within the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM systems. The list isn’t terribly extensive, but in this atmosphere of transitioning from one system to the...
The American Medical Association (AMA) may not push for CMS to move directly to ICD-11 without implementing ICD-10 after all, according to a report of the AMA’s Board of Trustees . The report will be...
I often wondered how the ICD-9-CM code set would translate to ICD-10-CM/PCS in regards to MS-DRGs. I couldn’t fathom that along with the costly transition to a new code set, CMS would “double whammy...
Although I'm sure these great contributors to the field of medicine will live on in many other publications, ICD-10-PCS coding manuals will no longer include eponyms. So you not only need to be...
Last week in my blog I referred to the Gustilo-Anderson open fracture classification. Since that time I have had several readers asking for more information. With the ICD-10-CM coding of fractures...
Expert predictions for industry costs for the upcoming move to ICD-10-CM/PCS vary from $6 billion to $14 billion (Robert E. Nolan Company), to $1.15 billion (RAND Corporation). Regardless of where...
