Latest HIPAA report highlights how practices let PHI fall through the cracks. If your lab is still using the same privacy protection protocols as it did when HIPAA was first enacted in 2003, you could be putting your practice in [...]
Are you one of the 68% of HHAs that have footnotes for your Care Compare CAHPS data? If you pushed off thoughts of CAHPS training and paperwork to after the holidays — it’s now time to tackle the topic. For [...]
Hint: Pregnancy affects your code choices. Coding an appendicitis diagnosis may seem more complicated than the surgeon’s work during the procedure itself. Remember to follow the ICD-10-CM guidelines and keep these expert tips on hand to simplify the appendicitis coding [...]
Don’t miss pregnancy impact. When your surgeon treats a patient with appendicitis, you may find coding the case is easy on the procedure side but complicated on the diagnosis side. Look to ICD-10-CM guidelines and the following expert tips for [...]
These difficult-to-pinpoint situations may require coding signs and symptoms. Some medical conditions are easy for your urologist to diagnose, like a urinary tract infection, but other conditions can be tougher to determine. If, for example, a patient comes to the [...]
Question: We saw a patient in the ED with right upper abdominal pain but after testing, the physician didn’t diagnose her with any conditions and the pain eventually subsided. We released the patient and asked her to follow up with [...]
Hint: The patient’s description will help you make the choice. Some problems that patients present with are simple for your urologist to diagnose, such as a urinary tract infection. Others, however, can be more difficult to pinpoint. Take, for example, [...]
You saw how three ophthalmologists would fare under the proposed E/M payment changes —now check out what the impact would be to three optometrists whose data we sampled. Using the current E/M payment levels and comparing them to the proposed [...]
Shell out $3285 as cost for providing MOON, and more. If you have been anxious about the roll out of the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice (MOON), you may breathe a sigh of relief, at least till October. In a turn [...]
Do this when you see “ring fixation” mentioned. If your surgeons use the term “uniplane” or “multiplane” in their external fixation op reports, count yourself among a lucky few. But if you’re like most coders and have to search for [...]
