EDITOR’S NOTE: Five Looking at Ten is a month-long series on ICD10monitor and Talk Ten Tuesdays that examines lessons learned since the nation’s healthcare system
EDITOR’S NOTE: Five Looking at Ten is a month-long series on ICD10monitor and Talk Ten Tuesdays that examines lessons learned since the nation’s healthcare system
New guidance for coding vaping is retroactive to Oct. 1 discharges. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has posted new coding guidance
Conduct coding audits in all settings and check vendors’ coding credentials are among lessons learned under ICD-10. When we left ICD-9-CM, there were around 14,000
During a recent conference call, the agency described assessing 64,883 ICD-10-CM diagnoses. I participated in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) conference call
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a two-part series of articles highlighting detailed examples of two challenged denials that followed third-party healthcare audits. I
It all started with a move from one office to another. Considering the monumental quantities of time and energy expended by the healthcare industry on
The actual go-live of ICD-10-CM/PCS was generally smooth, with no major problems. For health information management (HIM) coding and clinical documentation improvement/integrity (CDI) professionals, the
The risks of using the Internet to self-diagnose and code. A majority of us turn to the Internet for health-related information. According to the Pew
The criteria and definitions for sepsis are presented to help medical staff better understand sepsis. I popped on LinkedIn to repost the details of the
Electronic alerts for systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Erica Remer reported this story live during the Sept. 24 edition of Talk Ten Tuesday.
Confusion persists for the coding of vaping. The issue of vaping continues to generate national and international headlines. On Sept. 18, a teen from London,
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