Blog post
March 25, 2024 / By Courtney Crozier, RHIA, CCS
Whether you’re a seasoned coder or new to the industry, learning the coding guidelines and staying up to date with annual changes takes time and dedication. Each year presents new […]
Blog post
March 20, 2024 / By Michelle Badore
Sometimes, coding guidelines dictate that an illness be reported using multiple diagnosis codes. A widely used instance of this is for a condition that needs both the etiology of the […]
Blog post
March 15, 2024
When a patient is admitted for treatment of complication resulting from medical or surgical care, the principal diagnosis should be the complication. An ICD-10-CM code for the specific complication may […]
Blog post
Feb. 21, 2024
When the weather starts to cool off and the leaves begin to fall, coding professionals all start to think about fiscal year (FY) coding changes. You just cannot help it. […]
Blog post
Jan. 15, 2024 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
If you work with risk adjustment coding, chances are you’ve seen some recent news from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) announcing findings for audits performed. OIG audits aren’t new, […]
Blog post
Dec. 6, 2023
As another year comes to a close, we reflect on the many issues, changes and challenges affecting health care. We’ve enjoyed sharing insights and points of view from our subject […]
Blog post
Oct. 18, 2023 / By David Bacon
This October marks 3M Health Information Systems’ (HIS) 40th anniversary! A lot can happen in 40 years. From an RV in Salt Lake City (Read more about that here.) to […]
Blog post
March 10, 2021 / By Audrey Howard, RHIA, Sue Belley, RHIA
Since the start of the pandemic, health care professionals have focused on understanding acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a manifestation of COVID-19. Although ARDS was first clinically recognized in […]
Blog post
Dec. 27, 2018 / By Pamela Ewing, CPC
Where did the year go? December is almost over, and January is around the corner. It seems like we just welcomed in 2018. It was while doing a recap of […]
Blog post
Aug. 31, 2018 / By Kimberly Crear, CPC, CEMC, AAPC Fellow
Many people begin working in the healthcare industry before realizing the importance of obtaining a credential. Others opt to go through education/career programs and become credentialed prior to seeking employment. Individual […]
Blog post
June 18, 2018 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
A hot topic in health care today is Hierarchical Condition Categories (HCCs). At the last local AAPC chapter meeting I attended, we had a guest speaker who discussed HCCs in […]
Blog post
May 18, 2018 / By Allison Morgan, MS, CPC
We live in a communication age that embraces abbreviations and acronyms as a natural secondary language. Our emotions and reactions are reflected in “LOLs” and emojis on a regular basis. […]