Finding themselves at the center of a tumultuous, dynamic healthcare environment, physicians are becoming increasingly frustrated and anxious, frequently questioning their career choice. Preparation to be a lifelong healthcare provider inadequately prepares clinicians for the emerging value-based healthcare world to which they are being subjected. Physicians believe that they have little control over or input into the metrics that are rapidly determining their fates with healthcare organizations, third-party payers, and inevitably patients themselves.
It's been two years since the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) joined ACDIS to offer the industry physician query instructions in Guidelines for Achieving a Compliant Query Practice, published in February 2013.
We're less than four months away from the implementation of ICD-10-CM/PCS, and the AHA Coding Clinic for ICD-10-CM/PCS is rolling right along with advice for the new code set.
