Auditing and monitoring, Clinical documentation, Health information management, Hospital inpatient
During this 60-minute webcast, Gloryanne Bryant, BS, RHIA, RHIT, CCS, CDIP, CCDS, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, will walk you through what industry studies have found regarding MS-DRG shifts in ICD-10 and the steps you can take to identify them within your organization.
Health information management, Hospital outpatient, Physician practice
Read the operative report submitted by Lori-Lynne A. Webb, CPC, CCS-P, CCP, CHDA, CDIP, COBGC, AHIMA-approved ICD-10-CM/PCS trainer, and consider the CPT and ICD-10-CM codes you would assign.
Health information management, Hospital inpatient, Hospital outpatient
This report from HIM Briefings (formerly Medical Records Briefing) looks at trends that may emerge in 2016 and what your organization may want to focus on.
Use this flow chart to help determine whether process changes are necessary to reach your goal of a 24-hour history and physical turnaround time. Gather baseline data (a good starting sample is 30 medical records) and pull together a team (per- haps consisting of the transcription manager and transcriptionists) to “flow out” the process.
The HIM team at Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene (N.H.) produces Coding Commentary, a monthly newsletter dedicated to coding and documentation. View a sample of the newsletter and a Q&A with Chris Simons, MS, RHIA, director of HIM and privacy officer at Cheshire. The interview and newsletter originally appeared in the August 2012 issue of Medical Records Briefing.
Gloria MillerCPC, CPMA, vice president of reimbursement services at Comprehensive Healthcare Solutions, Inc. in Tacoma, Wash, provides a quick look at some of diagnoses codes for conditions that qualify for hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
Use this document to compare 2014 CPT® endoscopy codes to the updated 2015 codes, as well as the corresponding G codes. A mapping of 2014 CPT codes for radiation therapy and new G codes is also included. This list was prepared by Shannon E. McCall, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CCDS, and Peggy Blue, MPH, CPC, CCS-P, CEMC, for HCPro's annual CPT update webcast.
In January 2013, CMS introduced 42 therapy functional reporting G codes (nonpayable), but instituted a six-month trial period. That grace period ended July 1. This quick reference sheet shows the new G codes and the functional modifiers.
Coders frequently struggle with reporting modifier -59 (distinct procedural service) with drug administration services. This excerpt, from JustCoding's Injections and Infusions Coding Handbook, reviewed by Jugna Shah, MPH, covers how to report the modifier for injections and infusions and includes a Q&A for common questions.
