Today, while reading an article about some upcoming new ICD-10 codes, my mind drifted to the part of the world population at risk for exploitation.  In response to increasing violence […]

September is Thyroid Cancer Awareness month, so I thought I would share my personal experience with diagnostic studies for Thyroid Cancer. As someone who suffers from Hashimoto’s Hypothyroidism, regular thyroid […]

As the volume of outpatient care has grown over the past several years, so has interest in outpatient clinical documentation improvement (CDI). Yet many organizations struggle to define what exactly […]

I have said it before—I am not a fan of the term “correct coding” because it can so easily be misconstrued as being about individual interpretations of correct and incorrect, […]

Summer is in full swing and with that comes warm temperatures and vacations! I thought it would be fun to share how my family went to Missouri this summer to […]

Roughly 40 percent of healthcare financial leaders say their organizations lack in-house expertise and staffing for extremely important activities, such as managing new regulations and payment models. The gaps put […]

Guest blog by Monita Turpin, coding analyst at 3M Health Information Systems. In my last blog, I wrote about the conundrum of assigning ICD-10-CM code when providers only document “degenerative […]

Any Harry Potter fans out there? I recall a wedding scene in one of the last movies, when a disembodied voice whispers “They are coming, they are coming.” The wedding […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has creeped its way into so many facets of our lives. Video games, self-driving cars and smart home devices are just a few, and I’m sure if […]

Ah, summer!  I live in Minnesota and have waited through an extended winter for the day when I could bring out my shorts and flip-flops. When we think of summer, […]

In my most recent blog, I discussed in general why the capacity of ICD-10-PCS has limits, and how multi-axial structure and hierarchy together define those limits. This time I’m going […]

There is a lot of confusion among coders and CDI specialists about the status of PSI-90. I hope to clear up a little of the confusion in this blog post, […]