In a letter published today in the British Medical Journal, authors from Imperial College London NHS Healthcare Trust stress the importance of accurately capturing and coding patient episodes.
When ICD-9 to ICD-10 transition takes place in 2013, you will not always have an easy one-to-one relationship between old codes and the new codes. See how your ICD-9 codes will change in the following instances when the ICD-10 transition finally takes place.
If you don’t have any trouble using the ICD-9 neoplasm table, you shouldn’t have a hard time transitioning to ICD-10 neoplasm codes.
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) Work Plan for Fiscal Year 2012 provides brief descriptions of activities that OIG plans to initiate or continue with respect to HHS programs and operations in fiscal year 2012.