Clinical & Coding

With little more than 40 days to go until ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation date, there’s no shortage of last minute assistance and advice being aired...Read More »

Those following the episodic turns of the ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation saga witnessed another dramatic plot twist in the narrative this week when ...Read More »

By Michelle A. Leppert, CPC,

by Brian Murphy, CPC
Let’s move forward with full implementation of ICD-10 on October 1, 2015, both for hospitals and physicians....Read More »

Anemia is a tricky condition from a diagnostic standpoint because as many as one-third of patients in the U.S. could have some type of anemia,...Read More »

In ICD-10-CM, complication codes are structured very differently than in ICD-9-CM. Instead of grouping the codes in one chapter, ICD-10-CM places...Read More »

by Karen Newhouser, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS, CCM

ICD-10 CM/PCS.  To some, the utterance of this classification system produces much...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...Read More »