AHIMA 2013: First impressions of what lies ahead for ICD-10

The exhibition floor at American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) 2013 convention comprises a mixture of emotions. On the one hand, this year marks the 85th year of the association’s…

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ICD-10 Has Hospitals And Physicians Scrambling

Charlene Webber-Schuss, chief information officer at Community Hospital on California's Monterey Peninsula, faces two major problems in negotiating the gargantuan shift to ICD-10 coding, now less than a year away.…

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Accuracy of coding in ICD-10 pilot varies, report says

Medical coders participating in an ICD-10 coding pilot produced accurate coding using the complex new system less than two-thirds of the time, according to a report by two healthcare IT…

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Big Changes Coming To The Wound Care Market In 2014

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed switching wound care reimbursement from the current pay-for-service model, in which the treating physician bills the government based on the…

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ICD-10 Testing Pilot Was “Scary”

More bad news on the ICD-10 implementation front. The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance (NCHICA) have conducted two rounds of end-to-end ICD-10 testing. How to describe the results?…

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CMS Planned For Paper Processing Before Obamacare Launch

The vendor charged with processing paper applications for health insurance under the 2010 health care law got a big addition to its contract just days before the online exchanges opened…

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5 ICD-10 takeaways from the front of the pack

By many accounts, large tech-savvy healthcare providers are thus far the most prepared for the ICD-10 conversion. So what can the rest learn from their ICD-10 headway? There are three…

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Docs Urged to Start Prepping Now for ICD-10

Come the first week of October next year, the number of codes to document, say, an angioplasty will go from one to 854. The number of pressure ulcer codes will…

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Why providers must engage third-party payers for ICD-10

Just as a recent ICD-10 readiness survey by Health Revenue Assurance Holdings (HRAA) has shown that a significant majority of hospitals has turned the corner when it comes to training…

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