Author: Endicott, Melanie

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: September 10, 2014

When educating physicians about ICD-10-PCS, the most important factor to be pointed out is that ICD-10-PCS will NOT be replacing CPT. Physicians will still need to report their services using CPT/HCPCS codes. However, physicians need to be aware of the nuances associated with ICD-10-P....

Author: Kostick, Karen M.; Sanvik, Gina

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: September 2014

Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series of articles discussing the six Ancillary sections of ICD-10-PCS.


This article continues the Journal of AHIMA’s exploration of the different sections of ICD-10-PCS, focusing on the last three Ancillary sections. The side....

Author: Endicott, Melanie

Source: AHIMA blog post | Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: August 13, 2014

ICD-9-CM includes a supplemental section, E codes, to describe the external causes of injuries and poisonings. These codes are secondary codes for use in any health care setting, which are used to provide data for injury research and evaluation of injury prevention strategies. E codes....

Author: Endicott, Melanie

Source: Journal of AHIMA - website

Publication Date: August 06, 2014

The role of the clinical documentation improvement (CDI) professional is ever-changing. When CDI programs first started rolling out in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the focus was exclusively on acute care Medicare inpatients. The focus was merely on capturin....

Author: Bowman, Sue E

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: August 2014

As the US healthcare industry experiences yet another delay in ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation, misunderstandings surrounding the ICD-10-CM/PCS transition continue to perpetuate. This article addresses a few of the most common misperceptions—myths that need to be exposed with fact-based....

Author: Fuller, Jan C.

Source: CodeWrite | AHIMA newsletter article

Publication Date: August 2014

The increased specificity in ICD-10-CM is reflected in a substantial increase in external cause codes. The traditional “E code” has been replaced with V, W, X and Y codes. While the purpose of the codes remains the same, the ICD-10-CM codes provide a level of detail not possible in ICD-9-....

Author: Kostick, Karen M.; Sanvik, Gina

Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes | Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2014

Editor’s note: This is the first installment of a two-part series of articles discussing the six Ancillary sections of ICD-10-PCS.


This article continues the Journal of AHIMA’s exploration of the different sections of ICD-10-PCS, focusing on the six Ancillary sections. The....

Author: AHIMA

Source: AHIMA

Publication Date: July 2014

Author: Stanfill, Mary H; Hsieh, Kang Lin; Beal, Kathleen; Fenton, Susan H.

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: July 2014

Abstract


Coding productivity is expected to drop significantly during the lead-up to and in the initial stages of ICD-10-CM/PCS implementation, now expected to be delayed until October 1, 2015. This study examined the differences in coding productivity between ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-....

Author: Fenton, Susan H.; Benigni, Mary Sue

Source: Perspectives in Health Information Management

Publication Date: July 2014

Abstract


The transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS is expected to result in longitudinal data discontinuities, as occurred with cause-of-death in 1999. The General Equivalence Maps (GEMs), while useful for suggesting potential maps do not provide guidance regarding the frequen....