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While at AHIMA, Healthcare Scene sat down with Kim Carr, Director of Clinical Documentation at HRS. In the following video, I ask Kim Carr to make the case for dual ...
One of the really interesting stories I found at the AHIMA annual conference was the challenge that outside coding companies face when working with the hospital IT support. I think ...
I am finally decompressing from the AHIMA conference held earlier this week in my hometown of Atlanta. Conferences that last more than a day tend to leave me with great ...
Thomas Edison. Nickolas Tesla. Two hundred years ago, Edison and Tesla proposed different approaches to solve the same, unified problem — how to illuminate the world. Today, we face a similar ...
On the journey to revenue integrity, coding matters. So much is lost when coding is incorrect or incomplete. Consistent, regularly scheduled coding validation audits measure coder quality and accuracy. And ...
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "We must build up the dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." In healthcare IT, ICD-10 is the rapidly-approaching flood of ...
ICD-10-CM/PCS (ICD-10) impacts every aspect of a healthcare provider’s organization. It is a universally recognized enterprise-wide initiative with multiple stakeholders, but is still competing with other high ...
Upon quick glance, codes for insertion, removal, and revision of pacemakers look quite different in ICD-10-PCS. The good news is that much of the logic that coders use to ...
From a coding perspective, mechanical ventilation, cancelled surgeries, and Medicare’s transfer policy take top billing
ICD-10 is just around the corner and your practice needs to start preparing. Part of that preparation must include physician training and efforts to increase physician engagement.
While the transition to ICD-10-CM/PCS has the potential to put revenue at risk, adding staff to the revenue cycle is rarely an option in today’s cost-cutting environment. ...
While many hospitals have been steadfast at developing and refining inpatient clinical documentation improvement (CDI) programs, the implementation of outpatient CDI initiatives seems to be an afterthought at times. However, ...
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