Can You Pick The Right ICD-10 Family?
Remember those friends and family cell phone plans where you didn’t use minutes if you called people in your circle? You had to pick who you wanted in your group…
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July 28, 2015
Impact of Procedure Code Analysis on Claims Handling Procedures
Investigation into the top 10 procedure codes, based on total allowed amount, experienced by the auto casualty insurance marketplace provides valuable insight for claims organizations, investigators and legislators. With thousands…
July 21, 2015
Combating 3 Big Revenue Cycle Challenges
At Greensboro, NC-based Cone Health—a six-hospital, not-for-profit health system with 1,242 beds and gross annual revenue of $2 billion—a number of revenue pressures are making it tougher than ever to…
July 14, 2015
ICD-10 Grace Period Issued For A Year
The Texas Medical Association has been granted its wish, sort of: ICD-10 will be implemented with “flexibility,” meaning physicians will have to implement the new coding system on Oct. 1,…
July 13, 2015
AMA’s Long War of Words Against ICD-10
One of the more notable things about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' revisions to its ICD-10 policy on Monday is the fact that the suggestions come straight from…
July 8, 2015
CMS Will Reimburse ICD-10 Mistakes
The CMS has made a concession in the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10. For one year past the Oct. 1, 2015 deadline, the CMS will reimburse for wrongly coded claims…
July 7, 2015
Medical Coders Get Tips For Transition To New System
Communication was the theme at the Code It Right conference last week as medical coders prepare for a massive transition to a new medical coding system known as ICD-10. “I…
June 30, 2015
State Medical Societies Warn of Disaster with ICD-10 Transition
The country’s four largest state medical societies—California, Florida, New York, and Texas—have warned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the Oct. 1 ICD-10 implementation deadline is a “looming…
June 24, 2015
Think Your Practice is HIPAA Compliant? Think Again
You may think you know HIPAA inside and out, but experts say many practices and physicians are making mistakes regarding protected health information (PHI) that could get them into big…
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June 17, 2015
Clinical Documentation Excellence Program: Tackling ICD-10 Challenges
In October 2013, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) launched its clinical go-live of ICD-10 with a focus on data-driven priority setting and physician engagement. An external audit of…
June 16, 2015
Lawmakers Propose ICD-10 Two-Year ‘Grace Period’
U.S. lawmakers are making their third attempt in just over a month to tweak ICD-10 with new legislation. This time around, rather than attempting to kill or delay ICD-10 altogether,…
June 10, 2015
CMS: Successful April Medicare FFS ICD-10 End-to-End Testing
According to today's announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), ICD-10 implementation success is here. Between Monday, April 27 and Friday, May 1, Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) healthcare…
June 3, 2015
8 Tips For Protecting Revenue Under ICD-10
The “Increasing Clarity for Doctors by Transitioning Effectively Now Act” is an attempt to create a 'safe harbor' for medical claim reimbursements for physician practices struggling to get ICD-10 coding…
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June 2, 2015
AMA Pushes for More Delay, But ICD-10 is Necessary
Thomas Selva, MD, is chief medical information officer at the University of Missouri Healthcare. Last week we spoke about the last-minute attempt by the American Medical Association to once again…
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May 27, 2015
10 Questions To Ask Payers Today About ICD-10
There's more to communicating with healthcare payers than handing them a medical claim and saying, "Pay me." Creating better relationships with your payers before Oct. 1, in fact, enables providers…
May 21, 2015
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CMS Offers ICD-10 Advice for the Home Stretch
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has just released a fact sheet on preparing for ICD-10. This latest message offers suggestions for providers whose information systems may not be…
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May 15, 2015
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