After three years’ worth of frustration and postponements ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation seems to have been much ado about nothing (to quote Shakespeare). The October 1, 2015, implementation date has come and nearly a month has passed wherein the United States healthcare system lumbered on pretty...Read More »
Coronary artery disease (CAD) develops when the arteries that supply the blood to the heart muscles become hardened and narrowed due to a buildup of cholesterol and other materials, such as plaque, on their inner wall. It’s also called...Read More »
In a recent interview with HCPro editor Steven Andrews, Sue Bowman, AHIMA senior director of coding policy and compliance, and Rhonda Buckholtz, AAPC vice president of ICD-10 training and education, answered questions about ICD-10 concerns expressed by W. Jeff Terry, MD, an American Medical...Read More »
Many surgeons use templated notes for their common procedures. Find out what information is not included in the template and work with the surgeons and your IT department to update the template to capture all of the...Read More »
In ICD-10-PCS every character has to have a value. "You don't have the option of putting a Z wherever you want just because you don't know that value," says ACDIS Advisory Board member Cheryl Ericson, MS, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CDI education director for HCPro, a division of BLR, in...Read More »
ICD-10 CM/PCS. To some, the utterance of this classification system produces much trepidation. I hope to dispel some concerns as I recount the undertaking of ICD-10 implementation at one CDI program.
Coders and CDI specialists may not always agree with the advice provided by the American Hospital Association's Coding Clinic, but the publication can serve as a sort of judge and jury for confusing coding situations.
