
Improving the clinical documentation will be a requirement of the ICD-10 transition. Does it really need to start now? "Once physicians learn to document, you won't need [clinical documentation specialists] anymore," says Melinda Tully, MSN, CCDS,…
Improving the clinical documentation will be a requirement of the ICD-10 transition. Does it really need to start now? "Once physicians learn to document, you won't need [clinical documentation specialists] anymore," says Melinda Tully, MSN, CCDS,…
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has submitted a letter to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Acting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to reiterate strong support for maint…
Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful use program begins in October 2013 for hospitals and January 2014 for eligible professionals, and right after that comes the October 2014 compliance date for the ICD-10 code sets. A session duri…
As a healthcare billing and receivables management software company, Quadax will be impacted by the change to ICD-10 from many angles. Multiple projects are underway to prepare our software applications for ICD-10 and manage the needs of our clie…
The ICD-10 Spotlight: Know the codes feature that appeared throughout Partners in Health Update last year was designed to communicate various coding conventions, general guidelines, and chapter-specific guidelines in ICD-10. These conventions and…
Each month, AmeriHealth will feature an example of how ICD-9 codes will translate to ICD-10 codes. We will present coding examples from different specialties and popular disease categories to demonstrate the granularity that the new ICD-10 code set …
The ICD-10 Spotlight: Know the codes feature that appeared throughout Partners in Health Update last year was designed to communicate various coding conventions, general guidelines, and chapter-specific guidelines in ICD-10. These conventions and gu…
At some point, you're going to have to inventory your healthcare vendors for ICD-10 readiness. That means listing all the products and determining if they use ICD-9 codes. Those will be the software and equipment that need to be upgraded or replaced…
Jan. 28—The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) announced a new online survey to measure the progress of ICD-10 implementation nationwide and the impact of the one-year extension to the deadline for compliance (now Oct. 1, 2014). Any in…