Learning ICD-10: Documenting Type 2 Myocardial Infarction

Published: Tue, 08/15/17

Learning ICD-10: Documenting Type 2 Myocardial Infarction

The reasons we should be documenting and coding conditions is for communicating with other clinicians, recognizing clinical significance and prognostication, and receiving appropriate compensation for utilization of resources. The implication that a Type 2 MI is different than a Type 1 MI and the new guidelines reflect this.

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Final Fiscal Year 2018 Payment and Policy Changes for Medicare Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities

On July 31, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule outlining fiscal year (FY) 2018 Medicare payment policies and rates for the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (IRF PPS) and the IRF Quality Reporting Program (IRF QRP). The FY 2018 final policies are summarized...

Does a CDI Program Improve Physician Engagement?

Last month, the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) released a practice brief titled “Impact of Physician Engagement on Clinical Documentation Improvement Programs.” The brief contains some extremely valid and interesting points.

Moving Your Practice Past Industry Benchmarks

I often get the question, “What should my monthly numbers be?” My first response is, taking into account collections among other things affecting their practice, “What are your minimum requirements, annual goals, and what amount of time and energy are you willing to put in, in order to reach those results?”

Release of New Codes Coming Down to Wire

Why is it important to take these new code changes seriously? It is extremely important to for coders, but we have to think of opportunities for documentation improvement and physician documentation. For simplicity, we want to minimize errors and maximize output. For many of this year’s code changes, we already see the documentation in record, but previously had no way to capture...

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