News & Analysis

March 1, 2012
Case Management Monthly

So you've looked at your readmission data, and you've found a problem. One nursing home or SNF is sending back a large number of patients for readmission within 30 days.

March 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Mobile devices are here to stay-so now you have to manage the risks.

March 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Some interesting changes are occurring with the implementation of ICD-10-CM that are going to affect principal diagnosis selection.

March 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

ICD-10 will bring many changes, particularly when it comes to fracture coding. But practice will help reinforce ICD-10 education on the subject, and Lolita M. Jones, RHIA, CCS, sole principal of Lolita M. Jones Consulting Services in Fort Washington, MD, provides a sample op report for just that purpose.

March 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Test staff knowledge of HIPAA with these questions from readers.

March 1, 2012
HIM Briefings

Most HIM directors have October 2013 looming in their minds as the ICD-10 implementation deadline. But according to many experts, coders should be coding in both ICD-9 and ICD-10 well in advance of that date.

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