CMS declared its second week of ICD-10 end-to-end testing , held from April 27 through May 1, a success. Approximately 875 participants submitted 23,138 test claims during the week and CMS accepted...
Are you currently dual coding to prepare for ICD-10 implementation? Or are you double coding? Do you know the difference? When you dual code, you assign both ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 codes to the same...
Ah, summer—sand, surf, and…ICD-10 education? That’s right. Summer, especially this summer, is no time to stop your ICD-10 education. We have 125 days left until ICD-10 implementation, so we need to...
Our friends at the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) held their 8 th annual conference last week. Aside from a few mishaps involving their crack team of CDI...
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) specialists are a passionate group and they love ACDIS director Brian Murphy. They love him so much, in fact, that his appearance in the exhibit hall at the...
Great tip from 3M's Donna Smith, the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists conference general session speaker. "We're collecting data for the future. It is a little...
Super CDI specialist Cheryl loves Mexican food. Really, she loves it a little too much. She decided to celebrate the end of her teaching duties at the Association of Clinical Documentation...
Our friends at the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists (ACDIS) and 1,400 or so of their closest friends have descended on San Antonio for their annual conference. Things did...
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein The closer we get to ICD-10 implementation, the more we see the same...
Congress is getting involved in the ICD-10 transition again with a new bill introduced into the House of Representatives May 12. The good news is H.R. 2247 , Increasing Clarity for Doctors by...
Our friends at the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists are putting the final touches on their conference preparations. They have sent off the final shipment to San Antonio (...
We love surveys, especially about ICD-10. Seriously, how many ICD-10 surveys have you been asked to fill out in the past year alone? It’s very easy to look at survey results and think things look...
If nothing else, Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, is consistent. He again introduced legislation to kill ICD-10. (The bill is H.R.2126 if you are interested.) Poe has tried this trick before. He introduced an...
In case getting allergic rhinitis from your dog wasn’t bad enough, a Colorado man contracted the plague from his pit bul l. And then he may have passed it on to another person. Person-to-person...
And the flowers bring pollen. Achoo! Allergies are a fact of life for millions of Americans—approximately 30% of adults and 40% of children suffer from allergies, according to the American College of...
Our friends at the Association of Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists hold their annual conference next month in San Antonio , Texas. And like everything in Texas, it’s going to be BIG ...
You learn something new every day. Today’s new fact: you can be a professional video game player. I’m not sure why that surprises me. After all, video games have come a long way from the Atari and...
You may recall that Steve’s super streak at the Vegas craps table ended with a torn right ulnar collateral ligament. On the recommendation of his primary care physician, Steve consulted an orthopedic...
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I spent the weekend reading the 2016 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule. Not the most thrilling reading ever (government-ese should be classified as a foreign language). I did...