Diseases and procedures are hitting the news. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that 35 people had reported seizures (R56.9) after using electronic cigarettes (F17.290). The seizures were...

When efficiency is not truly efficient, after all. “Efficiency” may be defined in many ways, including the following, as described by dictionary.com: Able to accomplish something with the least waste of time and effort...

The final rule for FY 2019 for Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) payment included provisions to remove the Functional Independence Measure (FIM^tm) from the IRF-PAI (Patient Assessment Instrument) and incorporate certain data elements from the Quality Indicators section of the IRF-PAI...

UnitedHealthcare and the American Medical Association have joined forces to enable healthcare organizations and payers to use ICD-10 codes for social determinants of health. The two organizations say they are working together to standardize how...

If you are wondering why you should read this if you think you are not a rebeginner, well, it is because you actually are one. Beginnings do not disappear, they just reproduce. Novices are just starting, veterans have started over and over. We all begin as beginners and then we begin rebeginning.

For most health information management (HIM) professionals, many aspects of risk-adjusted coding might give rise to the phenomenon, at least as it pertains to diagnosis-related groups (DRGs)! The pandemonium regarding documentation coding payment changes brought about by...