The Definitive ICD-10 Guide to Holiday Movies
Written by Wendy Aiken, PMI-ACP | Monday, 14 December 2015 00:00 We all have one: a beloved holiday flick that inspires us to deck the halls, snuggle up, and press…
NCDs and LCDs Hit Hardest by ICD-10
ICD-10 update from physician practices By Beth Friedman, BSHA, RHIT, president and founder of Agency Ten22 Posted on: December 11, 2015 Despite physician resistance, the transition to ICD-10 has gone…
Doctor challenges how physicians are evaluated
San Diego Union Tribune- By Paul Sisson | 2:37 p.m. Nov. 14, 2015 Dr. Paul Teirstein led a coalition pushing back against unpopular certification rules. In less than two years, Dr.…
End Of Medicare Bonuses Will Cut Pay To Primary Care Doctors
HEALTH INC. November 28, 2015-7:03 AM ET : Michelle Andrews Many primary care practitioners will be a little poorer next year because of the expiration of a health law program that…
Why are Incorrect Characters a Top ICD-10 Coding Challenge?
Rev Cycle Intelligence- By Jacqueline DiChiara on November 17, 2015 “They’d only take ‘sequela’ or they’d only take ‘subsequent,’ and it was not necessarily understood what those seven characters meant."…
How to improve queries for ICD-10 claims
by CARL NATALE OCT 28, 2015 - 05:51 AM U.S. healthcare is waiting to see how ICD-10 implementation affects reimbursements. The fear is that ICD-10 claims will be denied at…
Smooth Rollout For New ICD-10 Medical Codes, Insurers Say
FORBES/ Pharma & Healthcare OCT 13, 2015 @ 07:55 AM Bruce Japsen ,CONTRIBUTOR The launch of tens of thousands of new government-mandated “ICD-10” codes used to describe diseases and hospital…
ICD-10 Compliance a Struggle for Some Physician Practices
By Kyle Murphy, PhD on October 12, 2015 October 1 has come and gone, and nearly two weeks in to ICD-10 compliance most of the healthcare industry is relatively mum…
ICD-10 Medical Diagnosis Code Gives Americans 70,000 Official Ways To Get Sick, Hurt or Die
By Rina Marie Doctor, Tech Times | October 5, 6:35 AM Just when patients and medical and non-medical staff in hospitals and health care facilities are on the verge of getting…
What’s left to do in the week before ICD-10 coding goes live?
by CARL NATALE SEP 23, 2015 - 12:00 AM There's only a week left before you have to start using ICD-10 codes. That's not a lot of time to do…
