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Oct. 3, 2023 / By Rhonda Butler
The diagnosis portion of the September ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) meeting, hosted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), was marked […]
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Sept. 27, 2023
One of the most important ways that identifying social determinants of health (SDoH) can improve health care is by improving access to care. Individuals who live in poverty, have low […]
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Aug. 2, 2023 / By Michelle Badore
Keeping current on the massive amount of change in the social determinants space requires tenacity. There are new codes released constantly, new mandates to comply with and an increase in […]
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July 19, 2023 / By Aimee Wilcox
In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, which requires the provision of health care coverage to the most vulnerable population, including those who never had coverage […]
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July 13, 2023 / By Megan Carr, Sara Brown
I sat down with the 3M Health Information Systems Vice President of Regulatory and Payer Solutions Megan Carr to reflect on health care trends and how having access to data […]
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July 5, 2023
The Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was initially mandated by Section 501(b) of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. CMS was mandated to reimburse hospitals […]
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June 23, 2023 / By Rhonda Butler
The day I delivered the fiscal year 2024 ICD-10-PCS update files to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for posting, it so happened that one of my favorite […]
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June 14, 2023 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
For the past year, I’ve been immersed in the world of hierarchical condition category (HCC) coding. It’s been a great opportunity to dig deeper into everything related to risk adjustment […]
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March 22, 2023 / By Rhonda Butler
It was Tuesday, March 7, and it (most likely) happened something like this … a coder or coding manager was watching the ICD-10 Coordination & Maintenance (C&M) virtual meeting on […]
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Jan. 25, 2023 / By Rhonda Butler
If there is one word that captures what many of us want to focus on in 2023, I think “balance” is a good candidate. From global issues like the climate […]
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Dec. 19, 2022 / By Colleen Ejak, RHIA
The American Medical Association (AMA) announced major revisions to Evaluation and Management (E/M) services for Jan 1, 2023. The E/M categories that will undergo revision in 2023 are: Inpatient and […]
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Dec. 14, 2022 / By Colleen Ejak, RHIA
The American Medical Association (AMA) announced major revisions to Evaluation and Management (E/M) Services for Jan 1, 2023. The E/M categories that will undergo revision in 2023 are: Inpatient and […]