Mary decided to take advantage of a break in the rainy weather to head out and do some bird watching. The birds, however, were in no mood to be watched. Mary first came upon a warbler nest with four...
Still trying to understand how to use CMS' General Equivalancy Mappings (GEMs)? The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) issued a lengthy practice brief titled, "Putting the ICD...
Recently I have seen many articles casting a negative outlook on ICD-10. They scare everyone into believing that added specificity to the codes will create more work for everyone, especially the...
Excludes notes in ICD-10 will have a slightly different look. Currently in ICD-9, there are simply excludes notes listed below codes in italic font. In ICD-10, there are two types of exclude notes:...
We’re on to the third horseman of our ICD-10 Apocalypse: productivity. More specifically, the anticipated upcoming decline in coder productivity. You’ve probably heard the horror stories about the 50...
The truth is often stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense. Apparently a panda in China figured out that pregnant pandas get better treatment, so she pretended to be expecting ...
CMS has created a tool that can help ease the process for mapping out equivalent codes between ICD-9 and ICD-10. On May 19, CMS hosted an ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation and General Equivalence Mappings...
Ready for another little ICD-10 nugget? Coders will have to learn a number of different coding conventions for ICD-10. For example, for injury code assignment, coders will need to specify whether a...
Happy 2013! We survived the Mayan apocalypse and received a one-year extension on ICD-10 implementation (which according to some people is more of an apocalyptic event than 12-21-12). Where do your...
Ever have one of those nights when you just can’t sleep? Maybe you’re awake fretting about the transition to ICD-10. Or maybe you had one too many cups of coffee. Never fear, we have plenty of ICD-10...
