New Diagnostic Codes for Substance Use Disorders and Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
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Once a year, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the federal agency responsible for the use of the International Classification of Diseases – 10th revision (ICD-10) in the US, releases an updated version of the ICD-10-CM, the HIPAA-adopted code set for medical diagnoses used by medical providers, insurers, and health care administrators.
The 2018 update of the ICD-10-CM took effect on October 1, 2017, meaning that users of the ICD-10-CM are required to start using the updated codes as of that date.
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New Coding Study Reveals E&M Encounters Per Hour and the Need for Cyber Security
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In a recent poll, only 80 percent of respondents to a question of how many evaluation and management (E&M) encounters they could code per hour said that they spent at least some portion of their time at work performing that
task.
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Providers Take Note: These Simple Strategies Will Improve Billing, Patient Satisfaction
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A new survey by the Medical Group Management Association suggests providers, especially hospitals, are missing out on key areas to improve when it comes to patient billing, payments and satisfaction.
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From Bundled Payment Reform to MACRA: Pick Your Poison
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It has been recently confirmed that the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) bundled payment has been cut from 67 to 34 percent in the program, and the carding rehabilitation incentive with bundled payments has been cancelled. The new political leadership in Washington, D.C. continues
to...
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Faster Preoperative Heart Rate Linked to More Postoperative Myocardial Injury
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Postoperative myocardial injury is correlated with increasing resting preoperative heart rate in noncardiac surgery patients, according to a new study. Interestingly, the researchers concluded that the relationship may be J-shaped instead of linear, demonstrating that abnormally low heart rates may be potentially dangerous,
too.
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Physician Practices Examine Risk Adjustment Coding in Wake of Federal Lawsuits
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A federal lawsuit claims that UnitedHealth Group, the largest Medicare Advantage insurer in the country, is coding medical claims inappropriately for monetary gain. But while the lawsuit doesn't involve physician practices, many practices are now paying more attention to risk adjustment coding than
ever.
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