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...
Here are the top 10 reasons you should attend the JustCoding Virtual Summit: ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS February 29-March2. 10. October 1, 2013 is getting closer all the time Remember when CMS...
I was talking with a friend of mine recently about the transition to ICD-10. He is a very good doctor who prefers to leave the “administrative details” to his capable office manager. Although he...
