At the American Health Lawyers Association Medicare and Medicaid conference in March, David Wright, acting deputy director for the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) described...

Spring has arrived in the Northeast and people are getting back to their exercise schedules. I was thinking about this topic as I was reading Coding Clinic, Fourth Quarter 2018. One of the big topics in this issue is body mass index (BMI) (Z68.-).

The Patient-Driven Payment Model is the biggest overhaul of nursing home reimbursement in at least a generation, but it is only a temporary fix, cautioned an expert at the recent National Investment Center for Seniors Housing & Care’s spring meeting.

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...