• 1 ICD-10 : CMS Offers Guidance on ICD-9 to ICD-10 Crosswalks

• 2 PQRI : Patients With Medicare as Secondary Count Toward PQRI

• 3 HOSPICE : Physician Headaches to Increase for Hospices

• 4 APPEALS : Add Up How Many Low-Dollar Denials You Write Off and Determine Whether to Pursue Payment

• 5 PART B CODING COACH : Stop Mixing Up Hysterectomy Codes by Highlighting Weight, Removal

• 6 PHYSICIAN NOTES : CMS Creates Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT) to Tackle Fraud

• 7 In other news ...

• 8 READER QUESTION : Can Graduate Nurses Serve as Medicare Providers?