Expect the holiday crunch to crank up to ‘11’ this year, with OASIS-E and VBP debuting simultaneously Jan. 1. New OASIS-E information released by Medicare underscores how much extra work will be dumped on home health agencies’ plates in about [...]
CMS promises HHAs ample prep time with “early 2020” release. If you think OASIS is a heavy load now, just wait until January 2021. A little over a year from now, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will add [...]
Many codes for congenital deformities receive minor but important changes. The overall ICD-10-CM 2020 updates may seem sparse, but the pediatrics coding community may feel overwhelmed by the changes. Many frequently used codes are being updated, along with coding guidelines [...]
CMS offers new code options for pulmonary embolisms in 2020. Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) updated the ICD-10-CM code list for 2020. The expansions, revisions, and updates include almost 400 changes and go into effect [...]
Know what’s going to affect your coding come October 1. While this year’s changes to the ICD-10-CM codes are mercifully few, their impact will certainly be felt in the peds coding community. That’s because a number of frequently used codes, [...]
This year’s diagnosis code revisions won’t hurt a bit. The good news about this year’s ICD-10-CM tabular addenda, which highlights changes to the 2020 code set, is that the changes are manageable. “The 2020 Tabular Addenda is only 36 pages, [...]
Grab your answers and see if you can call yourself an expert. Answer 1: To report a documented hypertensive urgency, hypertensive emergency, or unspecified hypertensive crisis, turn to the appropriate code from category I16- (Hypertensive crisis). You should also code [...]
Your ED may see these diagnoses frequently, but do you know how to report them? Every ED is sure to see patients with acute myocardial infarctions, fractures and hypertensive crises this year, but coding these conditions can present myriad challenges. [...]
New "without necrosis" codes join new toe fracture codes for improved documentation. As of Oct. 1, 2017, 300 new diagnosis codes have come into play, and the field of podiatry has received its fair share of those changes. Some of [...]
CMS adds new “without evidence of necrosis” ulcer codes. CMS recently published its list of the new ICD-10 2018 codes, but they won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2017. Do you wonder which of these over 300 new diagnosis [...]
