News & Analysis

March 1, 2013
HIM Briefings

Will ICD-10-CM/PCS wreak havoc on coding productivity?

March 1, 2013
HIM Briefings

Coders will take more time to code records in ICD-10-CM/PCS than they do now in ICD-9-CM/PCS. This much, the industry knows.

March 1, 2013
HIM Briefings

Q. Can paper patient records be kept in a public storage unit? The storage company we are considering has a digital entry at its main gate, and we would have a keyed lock on the storage unit door.

March 1, 2013
Strategies for Healthcare Compliance

A former clinical director for Biscayne Milieu, a Miami-based mental health clinic, was sentenced to 100 months in prison for his participation in a Medicare fraud scheme involving the submission of more than $50 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare, announced the Assistant Attorney General, the U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Florida, the FBI Miami Field Office, and the HHS-OIG Office of Investigations Miami Office in a press release.

March 1, 2013
Briefings on APCs

The AMA added five new nuclear medicine codes to the radiology section of the 2013 CPT Manual, while revising and deleting a number of codes that represented outdated technology or were bundled into placement procedures.

March 1, 2013
Briefings on APCs

CMS added 410 new codes and seven new therapy and patient condition modifiers to the I/OCE as part of the January 2013 update.

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