In touting the federal government’s efforts to make the realities of dealing with Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs) more palatable for providers across the country, one of the nation’s top health officials apparently couldn’t help but take a swing at the concept of universal care.

For coding and CDI (clinical documentation improvement/integrity) professionals, it’s exciting to read over the American Hospital Association (AHA) Coding Clinic on ICD-10-CM/PCS. This publication is a must-have document with must-follow guidance.

Not infrequently, in the process of utilization review (UR), we run into situations in which, as physician advisors, we get to review Medicare cases that do not match their original “label” (i.e. the initial status selection was likely not a proper one).

As we continue this segment on health information management (HIM) in the revenue cycle, I’d like to share some thoughts I discussed at the recent Missouri Health Information Management meeting.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced Thursday the agency will overhaul coding regulations that she argues have hindered beneficiary access to new medical technologies. Medical device companies will now be able to apply for a new...

ICD-10 is a set of around 70,000 diagnosis codes. ICD stands for International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. The verbosity of the name is foreshadowing. Some of the ICD-10 codes are awfully specific, and bizarre.

For example...