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Hospital acquired conditions (HAC): The phrase seems simple enough to understand. These are conditions one acquires while in the hospital, right?...Read More »

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in March posted new 2011 guidelines for ICD-10-CM...Read More »

Highlights from Coding Clinic, Third and Fourth Quarters 2010, include:

• When a primary lung cancer metastasizes
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By Glenn Krauss, BBA, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDIS

Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) denied $86 million in claims in 2010—more than double the $42 million reported in the third quarter. Medically...Read More »

Clarifying hospital-acquired conditions (HAC) and present-on-admission (POA) conditions represent just two additional aspects of medical record...Read More »

By Glenn Krauss, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CPUR, FCS, PCS, CCDS, C-CDI

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) called it the largest healthcare fraud sting in history. On February 17, the Medicare Fraud...Read More »

If the data is true, the population of a couple of concentrated areas in California suffer from kwashiorkor syndrome, a type of malnutrition...Read More »

A recent special edition MedLearn Matters article SE1028 outlines four risk areas targeted by the recovery audit...Read More »