Health information management

On January 4, 2013, CMS updated the three-day payment window section of the inpatient chapter of the Claims Processing Manual. Kimberly Anderwood Hoy,JD, CPC, director of Medicare and compliance for HCPro, Inc, in Danvers, Mass, reviews thenew sections which clarify two outstanding questions regarding services in the three-day payment window. She also discusses the update the CPT codes for cardiology procedures considered diagnostic.

AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-9-CM released its Third and Fourth Quarter 2013 editions of ICD-10 coding guidance, at the close of 2013. As a special supplement to the January edition of the CDI Journal, HCPro CDI Education Director Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, discusses information included in the releases.

Use this case study from HCPro’s ICD-10 Competency Assessment for Coders: ICD-10-CM & ICD-10-PCS to determine how well you understand ICD-10-CM code assignment.