Experts Say ICD-10 Codes Don't Go Far Enough
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When CMS switched from ICD-9 to ICD-10 last year, the new diagnosis classification list allowed coders to translate additional elements of doctors’ language to billers’ language. In a sense, ICD-10 added “adjectives” to coders’ vocabularies: oncology coders now have the ability to describe additional aspects of a tumor, such as whether it resides
in the upper left or lower right quadrant of a patient’s lung. Some coders would like to see that vocabulary expand further ...
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Meet The New ICD-10 Codes And Prepare For Increased Audits
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The ICD-10 codes changed for 2017 and include 1,974,311 deleted codes, and 425 revised codes. These went into effect October 1, 2016. Most chiropractors, fortunately, are only affected by about 70 of these changes—none of which are groundbreaking. But you should be aware of these changes because using deleted codes will result in denied
claims...
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Information Governance, Informatics Are Top Priorities For AHIMA |
As the healthcare industry transitions from fee-for-service to value-based care, health information professionals are on the frontlines of these momentous changes helping clinicians leverage technology to achieve better patient outcomes while reducing costs. The American Health Information Management Association’s mission is
to...
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Computer Assisted Coding Can’t Replace Competent Coders
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Are you familiar with IBM’s supercomputer Watson? IBM’s stated aspiration is to make it “the world’s best diagnostician,” because it can store way more medical information than a human doctor and makes decisions based on evidence, free of cognitive biases. It is consistent, and, according to the company, “given the same inputs, Dr. Watson will always output the
same diagnosis.” What if a flawed human doctor inputs incomplete or inaccurate data for Watson...
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5 Findings From Nationwide ICD-10 Coding Contest
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More than 550 coders registered with Central Learning to code 1,859 cases in September. The website scored ICD-10 coding accuracy and productivity levels using medical record cases against a vetted, standardized answer key based on...
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