Patients can receive life-saving treatment in minutes. On Jan. 2, 2023, the world watched as Damar Hamlin experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) on the football field on national television. Medical personnel leapt into action performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and [...]
Carrot: Paying aides legal overtime gives you a competitive advantage, DOL says. The spotlight continues to get hotter on the topic of agencies failing to pay their non-medical home care workers the legally required amount. For example: A federal judge [...]
Will drive-through vaccinations help? More home health and hospice staff and their patients are getting vaccinated for COVID-19, but the rate is still slower than hoped. Some states are continuing vaccination of home health and hospice staff while others are [...]
Know these updates to juvenile osteochrondosis and arthritis coding. 2021 ICD-10-CM changes relevant to orthopedic coding will go into effect Oct. 1, 2020. Use the next few weeks to become comfortable with the changes before you need to implement them [...]
Code sets get major upgrade in new Dx book. ICD-10 2021 will feature three major revisions to codes representing juvenile osteochondrosis (JO), and more than a dozen new codes to provide a more detailed picture of the patient’s injury via [...]
A hereditary condition and transplant complications may face coding changes. Corneal dystrophy and corneal transplant complications could both be subjected to major overhaul come October 2019 as part of the ICD-10 update. Proposals from the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee [...]
Hereditary corneal dystrophies, corneal transplant complications might be coded differently if proposals are finalized. Coding for corneal dystrophy and complications after corneal transplant could be set for a big overhaul as part of the Oct. 1, 2019 ICD-10 update. That’s [...]
Case costs may point to opportunity to save money. Orthopedics is a profitable specialty for ASCs, but it’s time to start thinking about how your center can perform these procedures more profitably. “Although more dependent on commercial payers than say, [...]
Look for a one-to-one match for coal and asbestos. While ICD-10 will offer you some direct matches for pneumoconiosis, you will be mistaken if you believe it applies to all causative dusts. Here is a layout of new and extended [...]
Type of inhaled inorganic dust is vital for accurate coding.If your pulmonologist treats patients with occupational respiratory problems, you're likely to see pneumoconiosis diagnoses fairly frequently. Get a head start on coding this condition when ICD-10 codes come into effect [...]
