Reducing ICD-10 Training Costs
In a recent past post, I highlighted ways that physicians were reducing ICD-10 training costs by taking advantage of options that are being presented in collaborative ways. AHIMA published an article...
View ArticleICD-10 Myths and Facts per CMS
In case you have not read it yet, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ICD-10 myths and facts sheet is quite a comprehensive two-page document that debunks a lot of myths concerning the...
View ArticleAMA Calls to Abandon ICD-10 Get Louder
On January 17th, 2012 the other shoe dropped. As I wrote in a prior article, the AMA’s laughable obstructionist November policy against ICD-10 was pure politics. Well, now the letter has gone out to...
View ArticleMost ICD-10-CM Mapping Choices for a Single ICD-9-CM Code
ICD-10-CM mapping, while not a way to code, is a useful tool to see the patterns of rules that organize ICD-10-CM during the time leading up to the ICD-10-CM implementation. At Provistas, we were...
View ArticleICD-10 Implementation Timeline Postponed
In a press release today, Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary, announced that the ICD-10 implementation timeline would be postponed from its current October 1, 2013 deadline. This is...
View ArticlePositive Impacts of ICD-10-CM on Patient Care
Since the Department of Health and Human Services has announced that it plans on delaying the implementation of ICD-10 largely, if not entirely, due to the American Medical Association’s inability to...
View ArticleICD-10 Implementation Delay Response by MGMA
The ICD-10 Implementation Delay has another advocate, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)-American College of Medical Practice Executives (ACMPE). Uniquely situated in the medical...
View ArticleICD-10 Delay One Year According to Proposed Rule
An ICD-10 delay of one year, pushing the effective date for ICD-10-CM/PCS to October 1, 2014, was part of a proposed rule recently released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The...
View ArticleICD-10-CM Hints for Obstetrics and Gynecology
With no word from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services about a revised timeline for ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation, there has been quite a slow down in web articles about ICD-10-CM hints. This...
View ArticleICD-10-CM White Paper from AMA Conflicts with New Resolution
ICD-10-CM White Paper from the American Medical Association Stands in Stark Contrast to Recent Resolution Despite the American Medical Association vacillating on the whether ICD-10 is the next logical...
View ArticlePatterns of Medicare Billing Abuse are Systemic
Upcoding appears to be the new coding several analyses of Medicare billing abuse have shown. OIG Report With Medicare being such a contentious topic in our upcoming Presidential election, several...
View ArticleImplementing ICD-10 HIMSS Call to Action
Implementing ICD-10 by the Compliance Date: a Call to Action A recent report published by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) G7 asserts that ICD-10 presents the...
View ArticlePreparing Physicians for ICD-10 Implementation
Preparing physicians for ICD-10 implementation was the topic of the October 25th, 2012 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services national provider call. Ginger Boyle, MD, CCS, CCS-P emphasized that...
View ArticleNational Coverage Determinations Get Diagnosis Codes
In change request CR7818, effective October 1, 2014, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that the National Coverage Determinations get diagnosis codes hard-coded as Medicare shared...
View ArticleNew ICD-10 Implementation Guides from CMS Website
ICD-10 Implementation Guides in downloadable PDF files are newly available from CMS for small and medium practice providers, large practice providers, small hospitals, and payers. These guides are...
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