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Choose different codes for atherosclerosis of bypass grafts vs. native arteries. If you find peripheral artery disease (PAD) and peripheral vascular disease (PVD) coding confusing, you’re not alone. Read on for some helpful insight on how best to maneuver this [...]

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 [...]

Findings from a recent OIG audit may make your hospital referrals more elusive than ever. “Medicare improperly paid acute-care hospitals $54.4 million for 18,647 claims subject to the transfer policy” from 2016 to 2018, the HHS Office of Inspector General [...]

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 [...]

Stolen laptop costs provider $850,000. Under the law, you have to report HIPAA breaches to the HHS Office for Civil Rights. But such a report could bring a whole new level of HIPAA scrutiny to your organization. Learn some breach [...]

Know what specific policies and procedures the OCR is looking for you to have in place. Hackers seem to always find new ways of accessing private information, especially when it comes to electronic protected health information (ePHI), and one trend [...]

Find out your weak points now to solve problems before denials roll in. The October ICD-10 implementation deadline is looming, and despite a small reprieve from CMS on ICD-10 denials, you still need to solidify your diagnosis coding know-how. Last [...]

Hint: Understand the disease process and its associated symptoms. Knowing how to code when reporting a symptom, definitive diagnosis, or both, can be challenging because the rules make it complicated. Read on to refresh your knowledge of the various guidelines [...]