News & Analysis

October 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

Now that fall is in the air, hospitals may feel a chill as Medicare implements the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) through the 2011 inpatient prospective payment system. Aspects include:

October 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

The transition to ICD-10 is not in any way the kind of transition we made from ICD-8 to ICD-9, nor is it a simple matter of training coders and installing a new encoder.

October 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

Test staff members’ knowledge of the new codes with this quiz

October 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

Every October 1, new ICD-9-CM codes take effect. Others are revised or deemed invalid. What do you need to know about this year’s batch of new codes?

October 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

RACs are looking at excisional debridement coding, and it’s no wonder. There are plenty of potential traps for coders reporting these inpatient procedures.

September 1, 2010
HIM Briefings

One of the most important aspects of documenting your evaluation and treatment of inpatients in the medical record is providing the verbiage that meets your goals for describing your patient. When you provide the right words, the coders assign the right codes.

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