Physicians resist change. They fear it. Although comfortable reading medical literature, and comfortable improving patient care with new techniques and medications, having CDI professionals “educate” physicians about improving their documentation habits...Read More »
During a March 7 conference call with payers, CMS indicated that it expects to release information regarding a new ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation date sometime in April, according to Renee Washington, director of customer systems integration at MassHealth, who spoke during the Massachusetts Health...Read More »
The ICD-9-CM Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) Committee discussed a few changes to the ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 code sets for the October 1, 2012 implementation dates during its meeting March 5.
Due to the planned implementation of the ICD-10 code set, the last round of regular...Read More »
CMS posted v29 of the ICD-10 MS-DRGs and an updated version of the v27 Medicare Code Editor (MCE) on the ICD-10 MS-DRG Conversion Project webpage, Wednesday, March 14, to correct some errors in previously posted...Read More »
