Marking Fire Prevention Week with Burn Coding Basics By Laurie M. Johnson
Marking Fire Prevention Week with Burn Coding Basics By Laurie M. Johnson, MS, RHIA, FAHIMA, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM/PCS Trainer | October 16, 2023 Oct. 8-14 is National Fire Prevention Week. The diagnosis codes for burns are found in Chapter 19 (Injury, Poisoning, and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes) of ICD-10-CM. The Index entry for burns […]
LSUS alumni’s develop AI chatbot with Discord server to help with medical coding
LSUS alumni’s develop AI chatbot with Discord server to help with medical coding By Makenzie Boucher Shreveport Times Two Louisiana State University of Shreveport alumni have developed an innovative medical coding chatbot that is designed to reduce time and improve accuracy for medical coding. According to LSUS, Phillip Kilgore and Keyvan Shahrdar have created […]
Sickle-cell Vaso-occlusive Disease
By Lynn Kuehn, MS, RHIA, CCS-P, FAHIMA If you’ve ever tried to code an admission for a patient admitted with sickle-cell pain but no one documented it as vaso-occlusive pain, and there was no answer to your query, you are finally in luck! The code titles and index entries for this condition are changing for FY2024 […]
Anesthesiology Coding and Billing: Central Venous Insertion
Anesthesiology Coding and Billing: Central Venous Insertion By Marcy Garuccio, ACS-AN, CANPC, CPMA, CPCReprinted with Permission, Medi-Corp, Inc. Reviewing documentation of central venous catheters placement can be a challenge for coders and auditors. Coders often see the indication noted on the paper anesthesia record, “insertion of CVP,” and they are instructed to code the appropriate […]
Coding Audit Benchmarking: Comparing apples to apples
Coding Audit Benchmarking: Comparing apples to apples Let me ask you a question: Wouldn’t it be nice to benchmark your coder’s performance against other coders in the industry? Up to this point, there has never really been a way to do this. Why? Because there are no standards for calculating accuracy rates. For as many […]
Official Coding Guidelines released for Financial Year 2023
It’s that time of year! Summer is winding down and we are preparing for the October 1 coding changes. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) released the Official Coding Guidelines for Coding and Reporting which will be effective starting on October 1, 2023. Section I […]
Outpatient CDI in the ED
Outpatient CDI in the ED The emergency department (ED) is often the first place a patient is seen before being transferred to the inpatient setting, and is an important part of any hospital inpatient stay. The September 2021 Association of Clinical Documentation Integrity Specialists (ACDIS) annual survey conducted “to gain insight into the state of […]