ICD-10-CM/PCS now has guidelines for reporting conditions that are present on admission (POA). As part of the 2011 guidelines updates, CMS and the National Center for Health Statistics added Appendix...
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) posted the new 2011 guidelines for ICD-10-CM on its website. You won’t find many significant changes to conventions, general coding guidelines, and chapter...
CMS has posted two new frequently asked questions (FAQs) about ICD-10 national provider teleconferences and the partial code freeze. To access these FAQs, please visit the CMS ICD-10 webpage , click...
Physicians who are part of a practice do go to the hospital to deliver babies, provide consults, and perform surgeries. So does that mean coders in a physician’s office will need to learn ICD-10-PCS...
When coders are looking at scenarios in ICD-10-CM/PCS, where the X is located within the code matters. When X is in the fifth and/or sixth character, X is a placeholder. ICD-10-CM codes can be up to...
CMS has released the 2011 versions of the ICD-10-CM/PCS crosswalks, also known as the General Equivalence Mappings (GEM) on its ICD-10 website . In addition, CMS also posted a document titled “ICD-10...
Looking forward to it? Did I really just say that? Yep – I sure did! In July, I attended a preview of HCPro’s ICD-10 Basics Boot Camp ™. I was actually a little surprised that the ICD-10-CM codes,...
CMS posted this week the following ICD-10-PCS files for 2011 to its website: Official ICD-10-PCS Coding Guidelines 2011 Version: What's New Code Tables and Index Code Descriptions ICD-10-PCS...
OK, so maybe your ICD-10-PCS (Draft) Manual doesn't rank up there with your most memorable reads, however, you can't deny that it's a page-turner! Sometimes, it may seem like you can't find the...
ICD-10-PCS is drastically different from the ICD-9-CM Volume 3 procedure codes. Just looking at the physical appearance, you’ll see that the procedure codes in ICD-9-CM have a maximum of four digits...
CMS recently posted updates to both the 2010 ICD-10-CM Guidelines for Coding and Reporting and the ICD-10-PCS mappings , "ICD-10-PCS to ICD-9-CM" and "ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-PCS." Regarding the ICD-10-...
I have always thought that ICD-9 procedure codes were very non-specific and that it is no wonder that inpatient coders don’t like CPT coding. However after looking at what is going to happen with ICD...