OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Standard for Healthcare Employers

Published: Mon, 06/21/21

OSHA has issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for occupational exposure to COVID-19 that is applicable only to healthcare employers. The genesis for this ETS came one day after President Biden’s inauguration when, on January...

Is COVID-19 the PDx When Present with COPD Exacerbation?

Recently I was listening to a podcast called Coder vs. CDI by my friend, Allen Frady, and his co-host, Amy Czahor, about how to code mild COVID-19 with other conditions; at one point, Allen mentioned he wanted to hear opinions from doctors. So here’s my opinion...

Clarifications make E/M changes easier to implement

Refinements continue for the evaluation and management (E/M) office-visit and outpatient documentation and coding reforms that took effect this year, and these include technical corrections updates to the CPT^® code set published by the AMA that add clarity and answer...

Simplifying The Task Of Wound Care Billing With The Help Of Advanced Systems

The present world which we are working at right now is completely filled with far more opportunities to turn up everything right for ourselves. When we are progressing just in the right way we can come up with some of the solutions. The wound care billing services is...

CMS Releases 2022 Proposed Inpatient Prospective Payment System Rules

On April 27, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a proposed rule for the fiscal year (FY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). The proposed rule includes...

ICD-11 Prep: Examining Prominent Changes in Preparation for the Transition

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the release of the International Classification of Diseases, Eleventh Edition (ICD-11) in 2019, the opinion among industry insiders regarding U.S. adoption of the new...