Clinical documentation, Hospital outpatient, Questions and answers
Test your knowledge of the CPT coding for acute blood loss anemia with this case study and Q&A. There is an answer key included so you can check your work.
Test your knowledge of the new 2018 ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes with this 20-question, multiple choice quiz. There is an answer key included so you can check your work. Good luck!
Auditing and monitoring, Hospital outpatient, Physician practice, Training
As a coder, have you been wondering what you should do if you hit an NCCI or medically unlikely edit? This infographic will help you learn to manage the edit process, master modifiers to use to bypass edits, and make sense of all of the acronyms used in conjunction with edits.
Clinical documentation, Hospital outpatient, Physician practice
The following CDI staff evaluation form provides a sample look at what is required of an outpatient clinical documentation specialist and gives parameters for measuring an outpatient clinical documentation specialist's performance. Valerie Parent, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCRN-K, donated the outpatient CDI staff evaluation form through ACDIS. Parent is the clinical documentation improvement manager at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, Maine. She can be reached at vparent@emhs.org.
The following case studies have been excerpted from JustCoding's Virtual Workshop: Injections and Infusions. They were provided by Jugna Shah, MPH, president and founder of Nimitt Consulting, Inc., a firm specializing in case-mix payment system design, development, and implementation.
Anatomy and terminology, Hospital outpatient, Training
CPT codes for reporting non-vascular interventional radiology are always changing, making it challenging to stay up-to-date on the correct codes to report. Expert speaker Stacie L. Buck, RHIA, CCS-P, CIRCC, RCC, demystifies the coding process and applicable terminology for non-vascular interventional radiology procedures in the 90-minute webinar.
