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April 17, 2019 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
Spring means different things depending on what part of the country you live in. For me, spring means melting snow, flowers and spring cleaning. This also seems like a good […]
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April 8, 2019 / By Rhonda Butler
I’ve got a two-part (maybe three-part) homework assignment for you: Read a pair of proposals for new ICD-10 codes, presented at the March C&M meeting. They are each two pages […]
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March 25, 2019 / By Pamela Ewing, CPC
What is Parkinson’s disease? It is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominately dopamine-producing (“dopaminergic”) neurons in a specific area of the brain called the substantia nigra. The substantia nigra cells […]
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March 11, 2019 / By Rhonda Butler
AHA Coding Clinic’s Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) held its two-day winter session in February, and I participate on the EAB as part of 3M’s contract with CMS. As I was […]
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Feb. 27, 2019 / By Kristine Daynes
Compliance requires exacting skills. HIM departments are expected to make sure patient care is appropriately documented, check for medical necessity, assign codes with ICD-10 specificity, identify conditions present on admission […]
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Feb. 22, 2019 / By Precious Porter, RN, BSN
2019 marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of Synopsis Nosologiae Methodicae, authored by the Scottish physician and professor William Cullen, which described a system for classifying disease based on […]
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Jan. 25, 2019 / By Karla VonEschen, MS, CPC, CPMA
Welcome 2019! For me, this time of year means mostly freezing temperatures and snow, but I have Scandinavian blood and remind myself it’s the life I choose. I live in […]
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Nov. 26, 2018 / By Kimberly Lodge, RHIT, CCS
Anxiety is just part of the holiday season, but several different types of anxiety can be experienced during this time of year. Generalized Anxiety (F41.1) starts around Halloween, with just […]
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Nov. 9, 2018 / By Kelly Long, BS, CPC, CPCO, CAPM
I have encountered many physician practices and facilities in my role as coding analyst that are often stumped on the actual language needed to support specific ICD-10 codes for abdominal […]
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Nov. 2, 2018 / By Rebecca Caux-Harry
One of the many benefits of working for a nation-wide company is visibility into payer actions from coast to coast. Our many customers send us comments about payer actions and […]
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Oct. 12, 2018 / By Rhonda Butler
I highly recommend watching Donna Pickett’s ICD-11 presentation, given at the September 12 morning session of the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance (C&M) meeting in Baltimore. The link to the YouTube […]
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Oct. 8, 2018 / By Allison Morgan, MS, CPC
I always look forward to the release of the new ICD-10 codes for the upcoming year, and the 2019 updates did not disappoint. At first glance, there are a sea […]
