New guidance for coding vaping is retroactive to Oct. 1 discharges.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has posted new coding guidance regarding e-cigarette lung injuries.
This guidance, posted Oct. 17, 2019, is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2019 discharges. The guidance states that ...
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 diagnosis codes in use across the healthcare industry – and then, on Oct. 1, 2015, we moved to approximately 69,000 ...
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 last Tuesday, explicitly focusing on complication and co-morbidity (CC) or major CC (MCC) designation methodology. This ...
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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 adopted ICD-10 – many of which are expected to come into play with the looming transition to ICD-11. George Vancore of Blue Cross Blue ...
