CMS has named the 2,217 acute care hospitals that are required to participate in its upcoming Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Expanded (CJR-X) model.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing medical coding workflows. AI-assisted technology can help coding professionals work more efficiently. But there is an important distinction between identifying a possible code and determining whether that code should actually be reported.
The fiscal year 2027 update to the ICD-10-CM code set includes new, deleted, and revised codes, as well as hundreds of changes to “Excludes” notes and “Code Also” indications. This code set was produced to show greater coding specificity by publishing codes with greater clinical specificity.
HIM professionals have an increasingly important role in determining who can access protected health information (PHI), what information they can see, and how that access is monitored.
