21 results.
Guidelines for Physician Office Query Practice
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Mogbo, Chinedum
Source: AHIMA practice brief
Publication Date: July 2018
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Guidelines for Physician Office Query Practice
Documentation in the health record is a basic but critical component to every patient encounter, patient service, and setting. The provider is key to delivering detailed information reg....
Coding Compliance and Ethics: A Culture and a Process
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: AHIMA newsletter
Publication Date: April 2018
AHIMA’s Revised Standards of Ethical Coding Available
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: May 10, 2017
The American Health Information Management Association Standards of Ethical Coding includes new and updated information and guidance as of December 2016. This is a must-have resource for any health information management coding professional.
The standards now include definiti....
CDI Tips Developed to Maximize ICD-10-CM/PCS
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Haik, William E; Hillstrom, Heidi
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2015
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) efforts have become a mainstay within hospitals, outpatient care facilities, physician practices, and post-acute care settings. CDI programs have a far-reaching impact on today’s data-centric healthcare system. When the appropriate level of detail....
CDI Tips Developed to Maximize ICD-10-CM/PCS
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Haik, William E; Hillstrom, Heidi
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: December 2014
Clinical documentation improvement (CDI) efforts have become a mainstay within hospitals, outpatient care facilities, physician practices, and post-acute care settings. CDI programs have a far-reaching impact on today’s data-centric healthcare system. When the appropriate level of det....
Engaging Physicians in ICD-10 Planning: The Documentation Link
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: May 2012
There is much to do before we reach ICD-10 go-live in our organizations-including engaging the medical staff. Physician engagement is important in all healthcare settings and initiatives, but it will be essential in an organization's successful transition to ICD-10.
Obtaining engage....
Ensuring Compliant Malnutrition Coding
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: October 2011
Coding malnutrition has always been a challenge, especially since MS-DRGs were implemented. However, with Recovery Audit Contractors and other regulatory auditing being initiated across the country, providers and HIM professionals must be proactive rather than reactive when coding this conditi....
Coding Compliance and PACT Challenges
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Rodenbaugh, Barbara
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
The Postacute Care Transfer policy or PACT has been a compliance issue for years and a revenue recapture issue as well. The Recovery Audit Contractors (RAC) demonstration project found over and under payments in this area and now the permanent program is starting to audit this as well.
CMS Bans Use of Physician Signature Stamps
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2008
Question: What is the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ruling on use of signature stamps?
Answer: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has made it clear that it will only accept signatures that are handwritten, electronic, or facsimiles of original wri....
Clarifying Patient Status Code
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: June 2008
The patient status code reflects the level of care a patient was discharged or transferred to when leaving an acute care hospital as an inpatient or outpatient (i.e., emergency department or emergency room). A recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services MLN Matters publication provides a....
Ensuring Proper Wound Care Service Coding: OIG Highlights Need for Organizations to Assess Wound Care Coding Practices
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2007
This year the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued two reports relating to wound care services and Medicare payments. As the OIG has included wound care services as part of its 2007 work plan, coding and HIM professionals should review each report and re-assess their organization̵....
Computer-assisted Coding Software Improves Documentation, Coding, Compliance, and Revenue
Author: Benson, Sean; Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
Introduction
Medical documentation and coding practices have undergone significant transformation in recent years. The cost of transcription, coder shortages, and an increasing emphasis on compliance have all played a role in moving the industry toward more efficient means of addressing....
E-Learning for HIM, Theory and Practice: a New World Order or Reinforcement of Existing (E-)Learning Theory?
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Reimer, Jim
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2007
Background
Despite the fast pace of e-learning adoption, many leaders and even educators are still skeptical of e-learning as a valid method to educate the workforce. A clear understanding of how learning theory applies to e-learning provides the common base upon which all learning is bu....
Testimony of Gloryanne Bryant to the Health Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: April 06, 2006
April 6, 2006
Chairman Johnson, Congressman Stark, members of the Health Subcommittee, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. I am Gloryanne Bryant, corporate director for coding and Health Information Management (HIM) compliance with Catholic Healthcare West (CHW). I speak to you tod....
Planning and Implementing ICD-10 Using a Team Approach
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 15, 2004
Introduction
It's one thing to update the current coding system each year, but it's another to completely redesign it. This is what we have with ICD-10 , both the clinical modification for diagnosis coding and the PCS for the procedural coding. Like Y2K in 1999-2000, and recently with H....
Closer Look at Cardiac Function and Resynchronization
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Gold, Robert S.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: February 2002
by Gloryanne Bryant, RHIT, CCS, and Robert Gold, MD
Coding cardiac conditions and treatments can be difficult for coders, due both to the intricacies of the muscle and its workings and the lack of specificity and documentation in the medical record. This article reviews common cardiac....
Coding Beyond DRGs ... What That Means to You and Your Facility
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 10, 2001
Introduction
Physicians and interdisciplinary staff document in the medical record but not in a manner that adequately reflects the acuity and severity of the patient's clinical presentation-often not accurately enough to reflect the detail of care being delivered, which resu....
New Anemia Codes Address Chronic Illness
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Gold, Robert S.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: July 2001
As of October 2000, there were three new codes for the assignment of Anemia of Chronic Disease. These codes are 285.21, Anemia in end-stage renal disease, 285.22, Anemia in neoplastic disease, and 285.29, Anemia of other chronic illness.
These three codes will help to better describe....
Catching Up with PEPP
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.; Fletcher, Robin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2000
A year ago, the Journal of AHIMA reported on the newly created Payment Error Prevention Program (PEPP), which went into effect in August 1999. What has happened since then?
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PEPP was created to reduce Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) ....
Compliance Efforts Get Some PEPP
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 1999
Earlier this year, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) informed the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) that "the DRG system is vulnerable to abuse by providers who wish to increase reimbursement inappropriately through upcoding, particularly so within certain DRGs.&....
Auditing and Monitoring--Elements of HIM Compliance
Author: Bryant, Gloryanne H.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 1999
Auditing and monitoring are two important components of a compliance plan. The author answers the most frequently asked questions about audits. In addition, find out how to get started—and what to do with the results.
Compliance—it's more than a buzzword. Establis....