Most coders will spend their time reporting codes from the Medical and Surgical section (first character 0) and the Obstetrics section (1). Each character in those sections has the same meaning:...
The National Center for Health Statistics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and CMS have posted some updated files for ICD-10-CM for 2013. The following files are available for...
Multiple surveys have shown that physician practices are lagging behind in preparation for ICD-10. CMS recently released a Quick Start Guide that outlines five steps healthcare professionals should...
Do you suffer from triskaidekaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia? In other words are you afraid of the number 13 or Friday the 13 th ? More importantly, can you code for those...
And the new proposed ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation date is (drum roll, please)…October 1, 2014. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the new date as part...
On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me seven swans a-swimming. To be completely accurate, he took a group of us on a road trip to a pond where the swans swam in blissful ignorance of...
CMS released three FAQs about ICD-10 billing, including how to bill encounters that cross the ICD-10 implementation date. That’s October 1, 2014 in case you forgot. And a claim cannot contain both...
Over the river and through the woods to the Fix ‘Em Up Clinic we go. Not exactly where our patients want to spend Thanksgiving (and neither do we), but we’re here to coding their holiday mishaps...
Everybody likes a shortcut. We want to get things done faster, arrive home sooner, finish tasks more quickly. Generally shortcuts are good. Unless you’re talking about physician documentation. Then...
So, once we start using ICD-10 codes, will you still be able to use a super bill? A super bill is a cheat sheet that many facilities and practices develop, on which they list their top diagnostic...
