Providers and the CDC may be setting up a coding-clinical disconnect.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Erica Remer reported this story live during the Nov. 19 edition of Talk Ten Tuesday. The following is an edited transcript of her reporting.
Since I don’t practice clinically anymore, it is challenging to ...
Tips for improving outpatient coding, CDI and billing.
In moving from inpatient clinical documentation improvement (CDI) to outpatient CDI, I have been discovering some unique educational pointers. I know we are all very busy, so let’s just dive right into it.
Doctors and coders, you should not ...
Providers should review their protocols to prepare for the changes.
The 2020 updates to ICD-10-CM contain some significant changes to Chapter 12, Diseases of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue. These changes include the addition of new codes for the reporting of pressure-induced deep-tissue damage, ...
A clinician’s perspective on the AHA’s third-quarter coding clinic.
I spoke at the inaugural combined Oregon Health Information Management Association (OHIMA) and ACDIS conference in Albany, Ore. last week. One of the comments I hear often when I speak to coders involves how much they appreciate ...
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