I had the opportunity to attend the American Health Information Management Association convention this year in Salt Lake City, and I helped work in HCPro's exhibitor booth. As a former HIM director...
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me, three French hens. Awesome, more birds. My house is starting to look like an aviary. I’m also not sure why my true love thought it necessary to...
The billing department will see plenty of payer ¬policy changes as a result of ICD-10-CM. Billers must know how the new policies affect what can be billed and how they must submit the bills under the...
CMS will host its third national Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) education call on HIPAA Version 5010 on September 9, from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Providers will need to transition to this new transaction...
I know there are some of you out there who missed the recent CMS national provider call. For anyone looking to catch up on this recent information session, CMS posted to its ICD-10 webpage a...
Is this a dagger I see before me? Why, yes, Caesar, that is a dagger aimed at your heart. And your head and just about everywhere else. Servilius Casca got in the first shot, hitting Caesar in the...
In previous versions of the ICD-10-CM Draft Manual , we were all under the impression that certain conditions, such as malignant versus benign hypertension and uncontrolled versus not stated as...
Labor Day might mark the unofficial end of summer, but we have plenty of summer-related injuries today at the Fix ‘Em Up Clinic. Our first guest of the day, James, went rock climbing for the first (...
We’re very excited to add a new voice to the ICD-10 Trainer blog family. I’ve (cough, cough) volunteered Steve Andrews to write for the blog. The joys of being the boss. Steve joined HCPro and...
Poor Wile E. Coyote, Friday the 13 th has not been kind to our favorite super genius. Wile E. arrived at the Acme ED decidedly the worse for wear after his latest encounter with a certain speedy bird...
