Practice Management Alert
Test Your ICD-10 Readiness
In the last issue of Practice Management Alert, you found a five-question quiz for your physicians, coders, billers, and other employees to take to evaluate if everyone involved in selecting the proper diagnosis knows what changes will come with ICD-10.
Despite the fact that you’ll have another year before you have to start using the ICD-10 code set, experts urge you to continue preparing for the change. “For those that have prepared already the impact is possibly losing some of newly acquired ICD-10 coding skills for lack of use,” warns Laureen Jandroep, CPC, CPC-I, CMSCS, CHCI, senior instructor at CodingCertification.org in Oceanville, N.J. “I recommend keeping up their skills by practicing ICD-10 coding a little each week. Brushing up on anatomy and practicing ICD-10 coding will make the transition much smoother and with less of a loss of productivity that has been projected.”
Continue your preparations by checking your answers to last month’s quiz. You’ll find the answers in the articles in this issue. Based on your success, focus your attention on your weakest areas.
Practice Management Alert
- News You Can Use:
You'll Have At Least 1 More Year to Finalize Your ICD-10 Plans
Don’t miss the conversion factor freeze details, too. Hidden in the context of the Protecting [...] - Test Your ICD-10 Readiness
In the last issue of Practice Management Alert, you found a five-question quiz for your [...] - ICD-10:
Don't Let Diabetes Mellitus Changes Complicate Your Coding
You’ll have two parent codes to start with, rather than just one. When your physician [...] - ICD-10:
Focus on the Type of ADHD/ADD to Determine Dx Code
Combined type can now be separately reported from predominantly hyperactive types. Your attention deficit hyperactivity [...] - ICD-10:
Brush Up on Your Terminology to Help Your Chest Pain Coding
Following inclusion notes will keep your coding on track. If your providers are in the [...] - ICD-10:
Expand Your Acute Bronchitis Arsenal, Tenfold
Pointer: An unspecified code is okay sometimes. If your providers treat patients with upper respiratory [...] - What Would You Do?
Get a Grip on NEC and NOS Difference Question: was looking at the ICD-10-CM manual, and [...]
