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Feb. 1, 2023 / By Aimee Wilcox
It’s that time of year again when the updates to the ICD-10-CM code set become effective and provider organizations across the country rush to learn about the changes and implement […]
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June 8, 2022 / By Sue Belley, RHIA, Audrey Howard, RHIA
Various ICD-10-CM/PCS and CPT® codes may be used to report hospital services for the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. Here are a few Q&As from our 3M experts Sue Belley […]
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April 18, 2022 / By Roxana Safari
Coding viral sepsis has been a challenge for coders and has triggered many questions in coding communities since 2016. The question has reemerged during ongoing pandemic with rise of COVID-19 […]
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Jan. 26, 2022 / By Sue Belley, RHIA, Audrey Howard, RHIA
Twenty-two months into this pandemic and we are starting to understand how all-encompassing COVID-19 is for the inpatient. Thus, when we realize that the inpatient medical record we are coding […]
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Jan. 10, 2022 / By Pam Banning
Our clinical terminology team’s background in nursing, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory and other clinical areas gives us insight into how health care systems are burdened with the sheer volume of data […]
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Dec. 15, 2021 / By Rhonda Butler
Last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) jointly finalized a proposal to make the April 1 update of ICD-10-CM/PCS […]
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Oct. 13, 2021 / By Chris Berg, RHIA
According to the Center for Disease Control’s National Diabetic Statistics Report 2020, there are 34 million people in the United States that have diabetes. That is 11 percent of the […]
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Sept. 27, 2021 / By Rhonda Butler
The latest ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) was held virtually Sept. 14-15. First on the agenda, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its final joint decision […]
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Aug. 20, 2021 / By Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, Kelli Christman
I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Global Chief Medical Officer Sandeep Wadhwa, MD, MBA, to discuss CMS’ latest guidance on Z codes, SDoH and how that will impact […]
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June 16, 2021 / By Rhonda Butler
The first draft of this blog was an exhaustive (and exhausting) summary of the actual changes to the FY 2022 ICD-10-PCS posted recently on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]
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Jan. 8, 2021 / By Stacie Silvia, RHIT, CCS
It has been a wild year with many changes, but we are resilient and have adapted. From social distancing to shopping with a mask on to limiting our family/group gatherings, […]
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June 17, 2020 / By Audrey Howard, RHIA, Bobbie Starkey
Now that we have seen many cases of COVID-19 being treated and recovered patients moving on with their “new normal” lives (at least in some states), we should take a […]