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AI Talk: Poverty, COVID-19 and satellites

June 5, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

As the pandemic spread in March and April, the nation went into lockdown and the number of cases began to climb, one factor became patently obvious: poor and minority communities […]

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2021 ICD-10-CM updates: Looking ahead to October

June 5, 2020 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA

Just when you started to get comfortable with the 2020 ICD-10-CM changes, CMS has published their list of proposed diagnosis code updates for October. Is it really that time of […]

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Data-driven approaches are essential to assessing COVID-19 risk

June 3, 2020 / By Megan Carr

As we all face the reality of day-to-day life during a pandemic, I consider myself in the lucky category. My husband and I may struggle as we manage two full-time […]

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Coding for COVID-19: Updated advice not included in the official coding guidelines

June 1, 2020 / By Audrey Howard, RHIA

With the beginning of a new month, I can’t help but reflect on some of the remarkable events that have occurred in the last several weeks related to ICD-10-CM. Coding […]

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Imagining a post-pandemic world

May 29, 2020 / By Private: Katie Christensen

Our world has been turned upside down, our economy is struggling, and many are sheltering in place amid the coronavirus pandemic, causing us to interact differently with loved ones and […]

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HCPCS codes provide safe patient/provider communication in days of COVID-19

May 27, 2020 / By Pamela Ewing, CPC

In early 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic was etched into the fabric of our daily lives, CMS developed two new HCPCS codes: G2010 and G2012. These codes were developed for […]

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AI Talk: Models, models and models

May 22, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

This week, I am focusing on AI models. A colleague pointed me to an article that suggests AI models are faring poorly. Then I saw three more articles with the […]

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The importance of essential health care during COVID-19

May 22, 2020 / By Barbara Aubry, RN

Last time I blogged, I had hoped that by the deadline for my next blog we would have some more effective forms of treatment for COVID-19 or better containment and […]

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COVID-19, surprise billing and the cost of care

May 20, 2020 / By Steve Delaronde

The fear of expensive medical bills is an ongoing impediment for patients seeking healthcare services and has only been compounded amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On March 18, 2020, the Families […]

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COVID-19: pregnancy and newborn coding

May 18, 2020 / By Bobbie Starkey

We have been flooded with news stories about COVID-19 wreaking havoc on the health and well-being of different segments of the population: the elderly, patients with underlying chronic condition and […]

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COVID-19, care homes and infection management: It’s time for outcomes measures

May 15, 2020 / By Richard Fuller, MS

In a prior blog, we highlighted the results of our research into patient outcomes, potentially preventable admissions (PPAs) and emergency room visits (PPVs)1among nursing home residents. In that research, we […]

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AI Talk: Testing and tennis

May 15, 2020 / By V. “Juggy” Jagannathan, PhD

This week’s AI Talk… COVID-19 diagnostic testing approaches One of the continuing issues related to the current pandemic crisis is the availability of testing and confusing media coverage about the […]