Paula Moran, MEd, and Jennifer Edlind, JD, CHC, know what they're talking about when they say having an incident response team in place when a data breach occurs is important. Moran is privacy and security manager at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston. Edlind is director of privacy and compliance operations at University Hospitals Health System (UH) in Cleveland.
Coding accuracy in postoperative complications impacts a facility's Medicare claims profile, error rate, and physician profiles on hospital watchdog websites that monitor performance.
Coders need to code. This much you know. But with the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS occurring perhaps as soon as October 1, 2014, they'll need to know a bit more than just raw coding. Now is a good time to review and update current coding descriptions, procedures, and job titles to streamline and reengineer your coding team's work flow, says Luisa DiIeso, RHIA, MS, CCS.
In the final quarterly benchmarking survey of 2012, MRB examined the release of information (ROI) practices of hospitals with hybrid or fully electronic records-just as we did nearly two years ago.
Our coding experts answer your questions about coding for hysteroscopy prior to ablation, appending modifier -59 for MRI and MRA, charging for venipunctures, therapy caps under OPPS, reporting limits for Provenge®, modifier -59 and infusion therapy, Reporting TEE pre- and post-operativley, coding for toxic metabolic encephalopathy
