At the annual American Health Information Management Association's (AHIMA) convention in September, AHIMA practice resources managers Kathy DeVault, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, and Ann Zeisset, RHIT, CCS, CCS-...
In late June, CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the 2014 ICD-10-CM codes without the updated guidelines. Those guidelines are now available on the CDC website ...
Which tasks have you completed on your ICD-10 implementation list? We want to know. Our sister publication , Medical Records Briefing, is conducting a benchmarking survey on ICD-10 implementation,...
One of the great things about healthcare and medicine is you can always learn something new. Today’s odd but true condition is exploding head syndrome. (I love the Internet.) If you have ever...
As healthcare professionals, we’re all familiar to some degree with HIPAA. You know, the law that makes it illegal to release protected health information, among other things. Hospital employees have...
CMS and the American Medical Association (AMA) may have made peace regarding ICD-10, but it seems some members of Congress didn’t get the memo. Reps. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Tom E. Price, R-Ga...
Spring is in the air and Anytown just held its combined Spring Festival and Easter egg hunt. I’m sad to say things did not go smoothly, judging by the number of patients in the Fix ‘Em Up outpatient...
You can stop holding your breath. Shelley C. Safian, PhD, MAOM/HSM, CCS-P, CPC-H, CPC-I, CHA , AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, and Tara L. Bell, RN, MSN, CCM, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS...
I was recently researching ICD-10 for an upcoming client presentation. As I was gathering information, I realized that this is the time of the year that I would have been entering into the budget...
Coders will find they need more information to select the appropriate code in chapter 13 (Diseases of the Musculoskeletal System and Connective Tissue [M00–M99]) of the ICD-10-CM Manual. Most of the...
